RE: slapd shuts down for no reason

[Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 08:30 -0400, Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL wrote:
> We had a similar issue a few months back.  I discovered that it was dying at
> about the same time.  Come to find out it was syslog rotation that was doing
> it.  Syslog sends a HUP signal to rotate the logs and restart a daemon.  I
> had to put a sleep statement in the syslog for slapd.

Your syslog rotates logs?  On our host (RedHat) it's logrotate which
does that.  And it's logrotate which must kill -HUP syslogd, to make
syslogd close and reopen the log.  From logrotate.conf:

notifempty
missingok
create  0640 ldap cerebrum
start   0

/ldap/log/syslog/openldap.log {
        size=250M
        rotate  2500
        compress
        delaycompress
        lastaction
                /bin/kill -s HUP syslogd
        endscript
}