Re: openldap does not want to write log files?

[Chris Jackson <cjackson@pasco.k12.fl.us>]

Based on the way he appears to be trying to route log messages syslogd would need the ability to write to the log file in /var/log not the slapd user unless he is using the slapd.conf call to logfile.

A couple of things to look at:

Is there an entry in you slapd.conf for logfile?  
								i.e. logfile /var/log/slapd
Try using a a different local4 call in your syslogd.conf.
							local4.*           /var/log/slapd


I have found that if you have the local4.* redirect in syslogd and a logfile call in your slapd.conf going to same /var/log/slapd  it will get overwritten, have permission issues, and not log.


Chris Jackson



On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Germ van Ek wrote:

> Unless your openldap is running as root (which it shouldn't), it won't
> be able to write to the logfile, as only the user root has permissions
> to do this.
> Make sure your ldap user can write to this file.
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] Namens Mauricio Tavares
> Verzonden: dinsdag 1 maart 2011 15:18
> Aan: openldap-technical
> Onderwerp: openldap does not want to write log files?
> 
> I am feeling rather confused here. I installed openldap in a
> solaris10/sparc box but I do not seem to persuade it to write to a log
> file. FYI, right now I am running slapd as root so permissions AFAIk
> should not be the issue. FYI, syslog here is the old,
> non-rsyslog/syslog-ng variety.
> 
> So, in the /etc/syslog.conf file I have:
> 
> local4.info                                     /var/log/ldap.log
> local4.err                                      /var/log/ldap.log
> local4.notice                                   /var/log/ldap.log
> 
> which makes me think I should be covering every possible message sent
> by slapd. Now /var/log/ldap.log is created as
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
> 
> and in the slapd.conf file I have
> 
> loglevel        11560
> logfile         /var/log/slapd.log
> 
> which not only should mean slapd is blabbing a lot to the log file.
> Also note I am telling it to write to /var/log/slapd.log,
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Mar  1 07:39 slapd.log
> 
> When I start slapd (after restarting syslog just in case), nothing is
> written to those two log files. In fact, the only clue that something
> happened is the data in slapd.log changed:
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Mar  1 07:40 slapd.log
> 
> Anything I am missing here?
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