Re: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Kristen, please stay on the mailing list you started the thread. Don't 
e-mail me solely personally.

Kristen Walker wrote:
> Thanks for your help.  I can't seem to be able to start the server with the
> -d flag.  Here is what I tried:
>
>  su root -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535
>
> I also tried:
>
>  su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd
>
> And it complains in both cases that -d is an invalid option.

Using -d works for me. Which version of OpenLDAP is this?

Can you post any output it produces?

Ciao, Michael.