quesiont about starting slapd

[Peter Choe <choepete@mindspring.com>]

i just got openldap and installed in on FreeBSD system.  i believe
everything was installed correctly and i modified the slapd.conf to
change
the dn, dc, etc.

i followed the instruction about starting the slapd witht he command:

su root -c '/usr/local/libexec/slapd -f slapd.conf'

when i check the process i don't see any process related to slapd.pid or
any
slapd related process.

i tried to do ldapadd and i get an error saying it can't connect to the
ldap.

how can i tell if i started the service?  is the command i put in
correct?

thanks for any help
peter choe