what the...?

[Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith@benshaw.com>]

the postmaster suggested posting here instead of openladp-general, so here
goes...

I think I'm missing one crutial part of the whole LDAP experience...  I
cannot understand why I can't find anyone in my directory!

slapd.conf:
include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf
include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf
schemacheck     off
#referral       ldap://ldap.itd.umich.edu

pidfile         /usr/local/var/slapd.pid
argsfile        /usr/local/var/slapd.args

#######################################################################
# ldbm database definitions
#######################################################################

database        ldbm
suffix          'dc=benshaw,dc=com'
directory       /root/argh
rootdn          "cn=root,dc=benshaw,dc=com" 
rootpw          secret



and my ldif file that I'd imported  (ldif2ldbm -i my.ldif) :
dn: mail=akohlsmith@benshaw.com, dc=benshaw, dc=com
Objectclass: top
objectClass: person
locality: Listowel
cn: Andrew Kohlsmith
cn: Andrew
sn: Kohlsmith

dn: mail=bvines@bensahw.com, dc=benshaw, dc=com
Objectclass: top
Objectclass: person
cn: Brian Vines
cn: Brian
sn: Vines
locality: Palmerston

dn: mail=rvines@benshaw.com, dc=benshaw, dc=com
Objectclass: top
Objectclass: person
cn: Ronald Vines
cn: Ron Vines
cn: Ron
cn: Ronald
sn: Vines
locality: Kurtzville



and finally, the search command:

$ldapsearch -b 'dc=benshaw,dc=com' 'objectclass=*'
ldap_search: No such object

someone... please tell me what I did wrong?  ldbmcat shows those three
entries.  I *know* they are there!

Andrew