I found no usable attachment. the very old openldap packaging wasn't supplied by Red Hat and obviously had someone else's vision for installing and running as user, and I seriously doubt that it's worth the effort to make working at this stage.
If you are looking to make a working openldap server, you should probably just forget that ancient stuff and work on setting up current openldap/db4/openssl/kerberos/cyrus-sasl as outlined on Quanah's information page... http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/configuration/index.html Craig ps - yes, it would make sense to create a user/group ldap and have the slapd server run as that user On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:01 +0100, Toni Menendez Lopez wrote: > I dont have any user ldap, look : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] platform]# cat /etc/passwd | grep ldap > [EMAIL PROTECTED] platform]# cat /etc/group | grep ldap > > And I don´t have the script /etc/init.d/ldap but I have the > /etc7init.d/slapd. I send you attached. > > May be I have to create the user for ldap ? > > I think problem is something about permissions because look the file created > in the directoy target : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] openldap]# ls -la /var/lib/ldap > total 12 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 7 17:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 7 17:01 .. > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 7 17:40 __db.001 > > > > > > 2006/3/7, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 16:27 +0100, Toni Menendez Lopez wrote: > > > can you explain me how this is done , the DB_CONFIG? > > ---- > > http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/738.html > > ---- > > > Which is the LDAP user > > ---- > > generally on an RH system, there is a user/group 'ldap' but this is all > > controlled by the method which ldap daemon is started - generally, a Red > > Hat system would use SysV initialization script which sets that and this > > would generally be /etc/init.d/ldap (that sets the user name) > > > > Craig > > ---- > > > ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Toni. > > > > > > 2006/3/7, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > just a guess...that the files (including log files) in your data > > > > directory aren't owned by your ldap user. Looks like you might need a > > > > DB_CONFIG for your data directory. > > > > > > > > Those are very old and unsupported versions of db4 and openldap you > > are > > > > using. > > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:18 +0100, Toni Menendez Lopez wrote: > > > > > This are packages that I have : > > > > > > > > > > BerkeleyDB-4.1.25-20050311.7.3.i686.rpm > > > > > openldap-clients-servers-2.1.30-20050311.7.3.i686.rpm > > > > > openldap-configuration-2.1.30-15.7.3.noarch.rpm > > > > > > > > > > And this is the error that I have : > > > > > > > > > > bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December > > 19, > > > > > 2002) > > > > > bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database > > > > > bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database > > > > > bdb(ou=CONTENT,o=alcatel,c=fr): write: 0xbfffd720, 8192: Invalid > > > > > argument > > > > > bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > > > backend_startup: bi_db_open failed! (22) > > > > > bdb(ou=CONTENT,o=alcatel,c=fr): txn_begin interface requires an > > > > > environment configured for the transaction subsystem > > > > > => bdb_tool_entry_put: txn_begin failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > > > slapadd: could not add entry dn="ou=CONTENT,o=alcatel,c=fr" > > (line=4): > > > > > txn_begin failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > > > bdb(ou=CONTENT,o=alcatel,c=fr): txn_checkpoint interface requires an > > > > > environment configured for the transaction subsystem > > > > > bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > > > bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December > > 19, > > > > > 2002) > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestion ? > > > > > > > > > > Toni. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2006/3/6, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:19 +0100, Toni Menendez Lopez > > wrote: > > > > > > Sorry about my previous messages, > > > > > > > > > > > > I need any king of tutorial or something similar to > > instalar > > > > > OPenLdap, Db > > > > > > Berkeley over RedHat7.3. Because I am having lots of > > > > > problems and I am not > > > > > > able to start the openladp server. > > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > stock packages? If so, they are so far out of date that it > > > > > doesn't make > > > > > much sense to bother with. > > > > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
