Name

-l (lowercase L)

Synopsis

When doing a lookup, the -l switch sets a time limit for how long to wait for a reply:

-l5

Note that the limit is not a general time expression (that is, 15m still evaluates to 15 seconds).

Also note that this -l switch is not available for all database-map types. As of this writing, it is available only with the ldap and ph database-map types.

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