Re: slapd won't start and problems with syslog

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@hetnet.nl>]

Tim Garton wrote, on 14-04-2007 01:59:

>    Running OpenLDAP 2.3.32 on Ubuntu 6.06.1 x86.  slapd fails to start. 
>  If anyone could shed some light on why that would be great.  Below is 
> strace output.  It looks like it is having some problems with syslog. Is 
> there anyway to have slapd use some other logging mechanism?

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> and slapd hangs at this point.

In my experience the best debugging of *this kind of thing* is not by 
running strace or any other trace debugger, but the native logging built 
into slapd.

Start the daemon from the CLI, as you apparently have done, *with the 
correct user* and other parameters, and add anything from 'd -1' thru 
'-d 1 ... 256'.

To find out what these do consult first the admin guide for your OL 
version, then 'man slad.conf' and look for loglevel <integer> [...].

Obviously slaptest (configuration test) has passed for your setup, or 
you couldn't have started the daemon.

Best,

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl