Hi, my slapd is running on SUSE LINUX. If you have a line like "pidfile /var/run/slapd.pid " in your slapd.conf you can do the following (maybe in a script), where "$conffile" is path to slapd.conf : pid=`cat $conffile |grep ".pid"| sed -e "s/pidfile//g"|sed -e "s/ //g"` pid=`cat $pid` kill -INT $pid hth Harry