Re: Logging OpenLdap queries and answer

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Karl Vondrash wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using an OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.23 server on a SuSE 9.3 Box.
> I've experienced certain problems with authldaprc configuration (Courier IMAP Server, 
> Authentification against Openldap, reading homeDirectory and mailbox  values).
>
> Is it possible to log all the queries and answers the openldap server receives/gives?
> (Server and Client are both on localhost, otherwise I would use Ethereal or tcpdump ;-()
> I've tried a very high loglevel and get some information like below.
> I find  send_ldap_result, send_ldap_response entries, but i can't see the values of the 
> attributes. Therefore I have difficulties to determine what the ldap Client requested and what 
> the server answers.
>
> Any hints would be useful.
>
> Greetings K. Vondrash

syslog is not a debugging tool. Use e.g. "slapd -d7" and capture the 
output on stderr.

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