ps -ef|grep ldap
netstat -at|grep ldap
If so then check that it is listening on all addresses (thus including loopback) and that your ldapsearch is against localhost (default I think). If so, then check iptables or ipchains or tcpwrapper (/etc/hosts.allow,/etc/hosts.deny) restrictions.
If no process or not listening on expected port then look for a slapd.conf configuration problem. You can turn on logging of configuration errors with a "loglevel 64" directive, and make sure your syslog.conf has local4.* going somewhere.
I came to work, logged into another 8.0 box, downloaded the redhat
openldap rpmz that were distributed with 8.0 and installed them, copied
over my config files from home, made sure everything looked the same
everywhere, and fired everything up. An ldapsearch says 'ldap_bind:
can't contact LDAP server'.
I can't ldapadd, either, obviously (but I did it just to check).
I opened a window to my home machine and one on my local machine and the
only difference I could see was that /var/lib/ldap at home had stuff in
it, and the one here at work doesn't. I'm guessing that's because I
actually did a successful 'ldapadd' at home, so maybe openldap doesn't
create stuff until there's stuff to add to the directory?
Permissions/modes/ownership is the same all over. /etc/init.d/ldap
start gives me no errors, and there are no errors anywhere in /var/log
(I grep'd the whole directory for 'ldap' and 'slapd'. Nothing).
I compared the /etc/passwd entries for the 'ldap' user, and they're
identical as well.
Is there a way to get Openldap to give me ANY kind of information about
what is going on here? Any other clues are more than welcome. I really
don't want to have to use SunONE. :-(
