Re: slapd (ITS#892)

[kunkee@neosoft.com]

> Full_Name: Michael McRae
> Version: 2.0.7
> OS: caldera edesktop 2.4
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (205.144.233.230)
> 
> 
> I had to kill the daemon and now it will not start again.  I am new to LDAP, I
> was
> in the process of setting everything and the slapd daemon was running fine until
> I 
> killed the process and now it does not report an error when trying to run the
> daemon
> however ldapadd and all other utilities report can't connect to LDAP server.  I
> removed the directories and installed clean, but still will not work anymore.  I
> am 
> very open to any suggestions.
> 

You should check syslog or start slapd with -d -1 to find out why.
If you used kill -9, then the database files may be corrupt and you
may have to start over.  A normal kill, or kill -HUP shouldn't cause
a problem like this.