Re: can bind, but cannot write or read

[Tomas Maly <malyprogservices@flashmail.com>]

kill terminates a process by it's PID (a number). To kill a process by it's
name, use killall.

"Julian Darley (mail.com)" wrote:

> i am running openldap 2.0.7 on openbsd 2.8.
>
> the overall problem that i am having is one of getting write permissions to
> my own server.
> i have belatedly put
>
> access to * by * write
>
> in the slapd.conf file, but how can tell whether slapd is reading this
> changed conf file?
>
> i would also like to know how to elegantly restart slapd. i have seen
>
> kill -INT slapd
>
> which i tried and also a changed version:
>
> kill -INT /usr/local/libexec/slapd since that is where my slapd lives.
>
> both commands produced:
>
> bash: kill: /usr/local/libexec/slapd: no such pid
>
> i have also tried
>
> kill -TERM `cat $(ETCDIR)/slapd.pid` (as described in
> http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/6.html#RTFToC36 )
>
> after substituting $(ETCDIR) with /usr/local/var/slapd.pid, i received just
> this:
>
>  >
>
> obviously the program is waiting for some input, but i don't know what input!
>
> i am using php code to connect with ldap, and i can get as far as binding,
> but can neither read nor write anything. slapcat does however produced a
> good result.
>
> many thanks,
> julian