Re: Logging with OpenLDAP

["Lars Peterson" <lars@itech-mke.com>]

On Fri, August 15, 2003 5:28 pm, Jason Williams wrote:
> Good evening everyone.
> 
> As I continue to work with my LDAP server, I get things working the
> way I want them to.
> 
> However, today, I noticed an interesting thing. It seems that ldap
> is not logging any information.
> 
> I edited my /etc/syslog.conf file and put in the following info:
> 
> local4.*                                               
> /var/log/slapd.log
> 
> Ok. It was working regularly by sending info to /var/log/slapd.log
> 
> But now its not working as I cannot tail the log to see how it is
> working.
> 
> Does anyone know what could possibly be the problem?
> 
> I've tried restarting ldap, but that does not even come up in the
> log.
> 
> ANy ideas?

Have a look at the LogLevel in your slapd.conf file. If its set to "0", then no 
logging will be sent to syslog. Refer to the slapd.conf manpage for further 
details.

Lars Peterson