[SOLVED] CentOS ldap server setup

Jadedkill · 07-11-2011, 09:30 PM

I am currently involved in setting up an openldap server on a CentOS platform. I am having some issues with getting it set up to the point that I can remotely manage the server via phpldapadmin in a web browser. I am running into an issue when starting the slapd daemon. Please see the output below to better understand.

[root@zimbra ~]# service ldap start
Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: DB_CONFIG for suffix dc=home,dc=local has changed.
Performing database recovery to activate new settings.
bdb_db_open: Recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manaul recovery if errors are encountered.
config file testing succeeded
[OK]
Starting slapd: [Failed]
[root@zimbra ~]#

Any help would be great and thanks up front.

T3RM1NVT0R · 07-12-2011, 01:50 PM

Hi there,

Welcome to LQ!!!

Please have a look at the following link: http://techarold.blogspot.com/2006/0...-recovery.html

I hope this helps.

subho.d · 07-12-2011, 03:08 PM

Hi, Go the date path and create a file with DB_CONFIG and set ownership to ldap:ldap by the command #chown ldap : ldap DB_CONFIG.

Jadedkill · 07-13-2011, 10:15 PM

Unfortunately niether of the suggestions above worked. I am unsure at this point if I should just start from a fresh install. The recovery was successful and I did re-chown the DB_CONFIG to ldap:ldap but was still unsuccessful in getting the service to start. Is a reboot possibly required to start the service after)?

chrism01 · 07-14-2011, 07:58 PM

Restart the service yes, reboot machine no (usually). A strong point of Unix is that reboots are rarely reqd.
You may find these links useful
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...5_ch-ldap.html
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...DAP_and_RADIUS

bathory · 07-15-2011, 09:02 AM

@OP
Check the slapd logs to see if you find anything.
Or you can start slapd in debug mode and watch the output:

Code:

/usr/sbin/slapd -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -d 255

Regards

Jadedkill · 07-18-2011, 10:48 PM

Unfortunately I needed to get this email server up and going sooner than later. This caused me to end my troubleshooting in the matter and start with a fresh install of the CentOS operating system. I appreciate your comments and help in the ordeal and will definitely keep them in mind the next time. I plan to return to this issue and resolve it as I am curious as to what will fix it if it returns. Thanks again!