Does loglevel have an effect when slapd is started (redhat: service ldap start) or only when data is loaded into the bdb database (slapadd -l /tmp/ldif). I restarted my slapd this morning and it appears to be using the logging level I specified in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf yesterday and not the logging level in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf today.
Do logging levels persist from the original slapadd?
loglevel is specified either on the command line, in the global section of the slapd.conf, or possibly in the configdb. It should not persist with slapadd-ed data.