Re: can't contact ldap server (81), please help

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, May 30, 2003 3:27 PM -0700 "Fatemi, Afsheen" 
<afatemi@oid.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed openldap 2.1.17 on my RedHat 9.0 Linux box along
> with other prerequisites like BDB 4.1.25 and Openssl. The configure
> finally was successful. I am following your "A Quick-Start Guide" in your
> Administrator's Guide. When I get to the point to run the "make test", I
> get the following error:
>
> ldap-bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)
> Test Failed.
>
> Even when I want to start the server by running the command :
>
>         /usr/local/libexec/slapd, nothing happens and the "ps -ef | grep
> slapd" doesn't show anything indicating the daemon hasn't started from
> the start.
>
> The "ldapsearch" command generates the above error message as well.
>
> Would you have any suggestions as to where I should start looking first,
> please?

Try /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 5

That should give you some debug output.  Read the slapd man page to find 
out what the different debugging levels will tell you.

--Quanah

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Stanford University
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