At 07:00 AM 2/28/2003, quanah@stanford.edu wrote: >perl ldap.monitor directory1.stanford.edu >getdn.c:93: failed assertion `ld != NULL' >Abort The assertion is valid. A non-NULL ld argument is a required parameter of the ldap_get_dn() routine. If you remove the assertion, you should find that the routine will segfault when it attempted to dereference ld. Kurt