Re: openldap does not want to write log files?

[Chris Jackson <cjackson@pasco.k12.fl.us>]

I meant to say:  

Comment out the logfile call in slapd.conf.

> Is there an entry in you slapd.conf for logfile?  
> 								i.e. logfile /var/log/slapd

Chris Jackson
Supervisor of Information Services
District School Board of Pasco County
813-794-2926



On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Chris Jackson wrote:

> Based on the way he appears to be trying to route log messages syslogd would need the ability to write to the log file in /var/log not the slapd user unless he is using the slapd.conf call to logfile.
> 
> A couple of things to look at:
> 
> Is there an entry in you slapd.conf for logfile?  
> 								i.e. logfile /var/log/slapd
> Try using a a different local4 call in your syslogd.conf.
> 							local4.*           /var/log/slapd
> 
> 
> I have found that if you have the local4.* redirect in syslogd and a logfile call in your slapd.conf going to same /var/log/slapd  it will get overwritten, have permission issues, and not log.
> 
> 
> Chris Jackson
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Germ van Ek wrote:
> 
>> Unless your openldap is running as root (which it shouldn't), it won't
>> be able to write to the logfile, as only the user root has permissions
>> to do this.
>> Make sure your ldap user can write to this file.
>> 
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org
>> [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] Namens Mauricio Tavares
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 1 maart 2011 15:18
>> Aan: openldap-technical
>> Onderwerp: openldap does not want to write log files?
>> 
>> 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?
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