Hi,

I have recently Downloaded, Configured, Compiled and installed these packages:

Sleepycat Berkeley - db-4.1.25
openssl - 0.9.7b
openldap - 2.1.21 (uses the above packages)

All packages built successfully with zero errors.

-+-+-+-slapd.conf-+-+-+-
include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
pidfile /var/slapd.pid
argsfile /var/slapd.args
access to dn.base="" by * read
access to * by self write by users read by anonymous auth
database bdb
suffix "dc=cvweb"
rootdn "cn=manager,dc=cvweb"
rootpw {SSHA}HV...
directory /var/openldap-data
index objectClass eq
-+-+-+-end-+-+-+-

Every how-to and readme I read says that I don't need to create the database first - just run it. But it doesn't run - here is the info from my running it /usr/libexec/slapd -d 4

-+-+-+--d 4 output-+-+-+-
daemon_init: <null>
bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database
bdb_db_open: dc=corvu
bdb(dc=corvu): unable to join the environment
bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
backend_startup: bi_db_open(0) failed! (11)
bdb(dc=corvu): txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem
bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22)
slapd stopped.
connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
-+-+-+-end-+-+-+-

And finally, /var/openldap-data
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 21:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 10 09:37 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 21:19 __db.001

The above (__db.001) is created automatically by running OpenLDAP.

Could somebody tell me what stupid thing I'm missing!?

Thank you!

Hello!

After posting this qustion - I joined the OpenLDAP mailing list. This seemed the best place to get an answer to the issue. I have since gotten it working, but I'm not clear about "how", but I'll give my "impression" (along with the impression of the OpenLDAP list community).

First, I want to make it clear that the OpenLDAP package passed the "% make test" process. That is to say that as user, 'gavollink' the test package was able to create an LDAP database using BDB.

Because of this, I started chasing the issue as if it were a permission problem (which seemed logical enough - forgetting that I'm running OpenLDAP as "root"). I asked to the OpenLDAP list and the most usefull response that I got was that my environment was hosed. (I have three active Linux Servers all running RedHat 7.2 or 7.3). So I instead asked another question, how do most users run OpenLDAP. Well the near unanimous response was anything BUT root.

So, I set up OpenLDAP to Launch as a user I created called "ldap". Suddenly it worked - it was able to create a database. Here's where things get foggy again. Once I ran it as the "ldap" user from these files, and I had set the config files, and the database directory to be writable by the "ldap" user - THEN I was also able to get OpenLDAP to run as "root". Even after deleting the database, and starting "fresh" it still worked. I don't have time to investigate further, but maybe this will help someone else.

Thanks,
G. A. Vollink