RE: openldap logs

["Marcum, Bob" <Bob.Marcum@telecheck.com>]

There is also a "log.xxxxxxxxxx" created in the directory with all of
the other directory files, in each instance of a database directory.
How does one read that data file?  Is there a slap utility to read that
file?  Otherwise, of what use is it?  And what kinds of information can
one get from that log?

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From: openldap-software-bounces+bob.marcum=telecheck.com@OpenLDAP.org
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On Behalf Of Hallvard B Furuseth
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:04 AM
To: Raffaele Viola
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: openldap logs

Raffaele Viola writes:
> how can I activate the openldap logs and where I can see the logs?

Tell slapd to log to syslog with e.g. "loglevel 256" in slapd.conf, see
man 'slapd.conf'.  Restart slapd.

Tell syslog to output the slapd logs: How this is done varies, but
typically you append something like
 local4.*   /var/log/openldap.log
to /etc/syslog.conf, and kill -HUP <the syslog pid> to tell syslogd to
re-read the config file.  (slapd uses the local4 syslog level by
default.)

On some systems you can put '-' in front of the filename to tell syslogd
to write log lines in batches instead of one by one.  This can remove a
significant I/O bottleneck if you have a lot of traffic.  See man
syslogd or man syslog.conf.

-- 
Regards,
Hallvard
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