Using The Refer Command - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Starting the Server in Referral Mode
If the server is already running, you can put it in referral mode by using the
Directory Server Console. This procedure is explained in "Setting Default
Referrals," on page 143.

Using the refer Command

Follow these steps to start the Directory Server in referral mode:
Go to the
1.
Run the
2.
instance_dir
option port number of the Directory Server you want to start in referral mode,
and
an LDAP URL, refer to Appendix C, "LDAP URLs."
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/bin/slapd/server
cd serverRoot/slapd-serverID/bin/slapd/server
command, as follows:
refer
./ns-slapd refer -D instance_dir [-p port] -r referral_url
is the directory instance for which queries will be referred,
is the referral returned to clients. For information on the format of
referral_url
directory under your installation directory:
is the
port