Re: Weird behavior

[Philip Guenther <guenther+ldapsoft@sendmail.com>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rick Stevens wrote:
...
> However, that's not the issue right now.  This machine won't start LDAP
> unless I remove the "ldap" part from the "group" line of
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> Won't start:
> 	group:      files ldap

Do you start slapd with the -g option specifying a group that it should 
run as?  Is that group defined in the /etc/group file?  (If "no" for the 
latter, just how did you expect it to get the gid to run as?)


> There are no log messages indicating a problem.  slapd simply won't
> start.

You mean it exits?  Or does it hang?  Have you tried starting it with the 
option "-d255"?


Philip Guenther