Re: openldap does not want to write log files?

[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Brett @Google <brett.maxfield@gmail.com> wrote:
> you are missing local4.debug in your syslog.conf, syslog messages are
> logged at DEBUG level by default, unless you say otherwise.
>
> "       -s syslog-level
>              This option tells  slapd  at  what  level  debugging  statements
>              should  be  logged  to  the syslog(8) facility.  The value "sys-
>              log-level" can be set to any value or combination allowed by the
>              "-d" switch.  Slapd logs all messages selected by "syslog-level"
>              at the syslog(3) severity level "DEBUG", on the  unit  specified
>              with "-l".
> "
>
      Thanks! Now I am getting the same output as I would get if I ran
slapd in debug mode (will fine tune later now I know what I am looking
for). I honestly did not expect it, but hey I am learning something
new! =)

> dont know why the other log is not working, perhaps check you are not
> writing logs as the ldap user or you need to --enable-debug during
> configure ?.
>
      Good question, specially since now /var/log/ldap is being
written. At the same time, it barking that I did not setup monitoring
(probably need to --enable-debug and recompile):

Mar  1 09:45:09 auth slapd[12169]: [ID 468869 local4.debug]
bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database
to enable

Do I need that to write to a log file defined in slapd.conf?

> Cheers
> Brett
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am feeling rather confused here. I installed openldap in a
>> solaris10/sparc box but I do not seem to persuade it to write to a log
>> file. FYI, right now I am running slapd as root so permissions AFAIk
>> should not be the issue. FYI, syslog here is the old,
>> non-rsyslog/syslog-ng variety.
>>
>> So, in the /etc/syslog.conf file I have:
>>
>> local4.info                                     /var/log/ldap.log
>> local4.err                                      /var/log/ldap.log
>> local4.notice                                   /var/log/ldap.log
>>
>> which makes me think I should be covering every possible message sent
>> by slapd. Now /var/log/ldap.log is created as
>>
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
>>
>> and in the slapd.conf file I have
>>
>> loglevel        11560
>> logfile         /var/log/slapd.log
>>
>> which not only should mean slapd is blabbing a lot to the log file.
>> Also note I am telling it to write to /var/log/slapd.log,
>>
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Mar  1 07:39 slapd.log
>>
>> When I start slapd (after restarting syslog just in case), nothing is
>> written to those two log files. In fact, the only clue that something
>> happened is the data in slapd.log changed:
>>
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Mar  1 07:40 slapd.log
>>
>> Anything I am missing here?
>>
>