Re: Help: slapd respawning too fast

[kunkee@neosoft.com (Randy Kunkee)]

> Hello!
> 
> I use OpenLdap 1.2 and SuSE Linux.
> Im my inittab I have added the entry
> 	ld:23:respawn:/usr/local/libexec/slapd -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/myslapd.conf
> 
> But something goes wrong: init always wants to restart slapd although it
> is already running:
> 
> slapd[22306]: slapd starting
> slapd[22311]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22312]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22316]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22324]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22322]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> init: Id "ld" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> slapd[22328]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22333]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22335]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> slapd[22337]: bind() failed errno 98 (Address already in use)
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 

This is really a Unix system admin problem, and has very little to do
with OpenLDAP at all except that the way you are running it, slapd puts
itself in the background, and appears to init to exit, thus the attempts
to restart it.  Eventually init disarms itself.

Running slapd out of init is not necessarily the right thing to do, but
if you want to do it, you need to use a flag to support slapd's backgrounding
of itself.  Check the manpage.  I believe you can use -d 0 to accomplish
this.

Randy