Re: AW: Noob configuration issues

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>how could you manage to make slapd to log? I use solaris,
>I wrote in /etc/syslog.conf following:
>local4.*        /var/log/ldap.log
>and restarted syslog daemon. Still I don't get any byte in /var/log/ldap.log.
>I run slapd as root, /var/log exists, root may write there, 
>in slapd.conf I have
>loglevel -1

A negative log level?  I'll have to look that one up.

>Am I supposed to have any secret knowledge to make slapd to log?

Did you create /var/log/ldap.log?  syslogd won't create files.

Configuring and using the system logs -
ftp://kazoolug.org/pub/pdf/Timber.pdf

OpenLDAP stuff including syslog -
ftp://kazoolug.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf