Re: OpenLDAP does not seem to start

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:28 PM -0600 
sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:50 AM -0600
> > sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is my db corrupted possibly after the electric outage?  If so, is there
> > > a
> > > fix to run on it or will I just have to have a backup of it?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any info.
> >
> > I suggest looking into the "db_recover" command that matches with the
> > version of BDB that your OpenLDAP is linked against.  I'm not certain why
> > you didn't spend some time trying to get error messages from slapd after
> > rebooting, certainly nss_ldap isn't going to provide anything useful
> > about why LDAP fails to start.
>
> Thanks.  I will look at the db_recover.  I actually could not find any log
> files on slapd unless I am looking for the wrong thing.
>
> I looked in /var/log, /var/lib/ldap, /var/run/openldap and other places,
> but could not find any logs.  I checked the ldap.conf and slapd.conf file
> also to see if it had the location of where they were, but all I saw was a
> 256 log level.

Read the slapd man page

Specifically read up on the -d option for setting a debug level at startup 
for help with things like when slapd won't actually start up all the way.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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