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

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Kristen Walker wrote:
> > Kristen, please stay on the mailing list you started the thread. Don't
> > e-mail me solely personally.
>
> Sorry about that.

Again: Please, use your "Reply to all" button!

> > 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?
>
> I am using openldap-2.3.39 on Ubuntu.
>
> Here is the output:
>
>  su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd
> su: invalid option -- d
> Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Obviously this is wrong since you use option -d for the su command.

How about doing "su -" just to get root and then use

/usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535 [..other needed args..]

You also have to check your syslog and which user is running slapd normally.

Ciao, Michael.