Re: openldap does not want to write log files?

[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Chris Jackson <cjackson@pasco.k12.fl.us> wrote:
> 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.
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> A couple of things to look at:
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> Is there an entry in you slapd.conf for logfile?
>                                                                i.e. logfile /var/log/slapd

      Copying from my original post, this is what I have:

>> and in the slapd.conf file I have
>>
>> loglevel        11560
>> logfile         /var/log/slapd.log

> Try using a a different local4 call in your syslogd.conf.
>                                                        local4.*           /var/log/slapd
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      Well, I found out I really can't. It seems the stock solaris
syslog does not like a "*" as the priority. It took me a bit to figure
that one out, but that is why I chose to be explicit. I know I should
just but rsyslog or syslog-ng, but right now I just want to make sure
I can make it talk to the stock syslog before adding more variables to
my mess. =)
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> 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.
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> Chris Jackson
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> On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Germ van Ek wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> So, in the /etc/syslog.conf file I have:
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>> local4.info                                     /var/log/ldap.log
>> local4.err                                      /var/log/ldap.log
>> local4.notice                                   /var/log/ldap.log
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>> which makes me think I should be covering every possible message sent
>> by slapd. Now /var/log/ldap.log is created as
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>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
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>> and in the slapd.conf file I have
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>> loglevel        11560
>> logfile         /var/log/slapd.log
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Feb 28 16:21 ldap.log
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Mar  1 07:40 slapd.log
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>> Anything I am missing here?
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