Re: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

su root -c "/usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535"

--Quanah

--On August 14, 2008 4:03:24 PM -0700 Kristen  Walker <kwalker@sbceo.org> 
wrote:

> > Kristen, please stay on the mailing list you started the thread. Don't
> > e-mail me solely personally.
>
> Sorry about that.
> > Kristen Walker wrote:
> > > Thanks for your help.  I can't seem to be able to start the server with
> > > the -d flag.  Here is what I tried:
> > >
> > >  su root -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535
> > >
> > > I also tried:
> > >
> > >  su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd
> > >
> > > And it complains in both cases that -d is an invalid option.
> >
> > Using -d works for me. Which version of OpenLDAP is this?
> >
> > Can you post any output it produces?
>
> I am using openldap-2.3.39 on Ubuntu.
>
> Here is the output:
>
>  su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd
> su: invalid option -- d
> Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]
>
> Options:
>   -c, --command COMMAND         pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
>   -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
>   -, -l, --login                make the shell a login shell
>   -m, -p,
>   --preserve-environment        do not reset environment variables, and
> keep                                 the same shell
>   -s, --shell SHELL             use SHELL instead of the default in passwd
>
> Thanks,
> Kristen
>
>
> --
> Kristen Walker
>
> Digital Media Resources Developer
> Instructional Media Services
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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