The slurpd daemon controls the replication of LDAP directories over a network by sending changes from the master LDAP directory to slave LDAP directories. You won't need to run slurpd unless you have more than one LDAP server on your network. If you have two or more LDAP servers, slurpd will keep the various LDAP directories in sync. With the exception of ldapsearch , each of these utilities is much more easily used by referencing a file with the changes to be made rather than typing the commands one after the other. Each of their respective man pages covers the syntax of these files.
Warning Be sure to stop slapd before using slapadd , slapcat or slapindex .
Otherwise, you are risking the consistency of your LDAP database. See the man pages for each of these utilities for more information about how to use them.