Re: Starting OpenLDAP: slapd - failed

[Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, March 20, 2009 03:11:59 PM -0700 Eldon Phukuile 
<ehpmail@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am following the tutorial at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html.
> Everything worked until...
>
> Command:
> sudo /etc/init.d/slapd restart
>
> Output:
> Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd.
> Starting OpenLDAP: slapd - failed.
> The operation failed but no output was produced. For hints on what went
> wrong please refer to the system's logfiles (e.g. /var/log/syslog) or
> try running the daemon in Debug mode like via "slapd -d 16383" (warning:
> this will create copious output).

What do you see in the log file?  Unless you have directed it somewhere 
else that is /var/log/syslog.

You also might try slaptest to make sure your configuration file is not 
broken.

Bill

> Below, you can find the command line options used by this script to
> run slapd. Do not forget to specify those options if you
> want to look to debugging output:
> Â slapd -h 'ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///' -g openldap -u
> openldap -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d/
>
> Command:
> slapd -d 16383
>
> Output:
> @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.11 (Nov 8 2008 09:42:18) $
> Â Â Â Â
> buildd@palmer:/build/buildd/openldap-2.4.11/debian/build/servers/slapd
> ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a: host=MORPHEUS.matrix.corp, r=0
> daemon_init: <null>
> daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
> daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
> ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
> daemon: bind(7) failed errno=13 (Permission denied)
> daemon: bind(7) failed errno=13 (Permission denied)
> slap_open_listener: failed on ldap:///
> slapd stopped.
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.




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| Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>
| Systems Software Programmer, ITS Unix Systems, Stanford University