We have a small office, and I thought I'd set up an LDAP server on the Linux box. All I want is a common place for addresses and phone numbers, that everyone can access.

After trying for quite a while, I was able to install openldap-server and a few dependencies. However, bash cannot find slapd to start it. The "Services" panel of MCC does not list ldap or slapd. The only man entry is ldif, which has a "See also ldap" However, man ldap does not work.

I could get the tarballs, configure and make, but I'd rather use Mandrake package installer. Another reason I don't want to do this, is that I think it's already installed. Is there any way to know for sure? Is there a guide for installing this on Mandrake Linux? Any other advice?

Thanks, Dave

One question is "Why did it take you quite a while to install openldap-servers" ? It should only require a terminal and an 'urpmi openldap-servers'.

Anyhow, slapd should be in /usr/sbin and an 'rpm -qa | grep -i ldap' shows you any package named ldap you've got installed.
If that gives you say libldap2-2.1.30-3mdk you can run 'rpm -ql libldap2' to see the contents.

- Peder

I used the software installer built into the Mandrake Control Center. I used easyurpmi.zarb.org to get set it up. When I tried to install, it kept hanging up on "Can't verify md5 checksum" or "unable to select package because dependency "db4-lib" is not installed. This was last night, so I don't remember 100% of the details. I kept having to try different urls.

So, /usr/sbin is not in my $PATH. Hmm. I didn't think of that. I guess the rpms don't necessarily install the man pages then.

So, there are two version of slapd installed! slapd and slapd2.2 There are two version of all the other ldap daemons as well. Now, how do I get these to launch on startup? I would like to use the "Services" pane of Mandrake Control Center, but they did not make in there.

-Dave

Yupp, you need the db4 (or db3) backend to store the info.
If /usr/sbin isn't in your $PATH you're probably not root.

Check if you have a ldap file in /etc/init.d. If so type 'service ldap start' to temporarily start it.
'chkconfig ldap on' makes it start automagically at boot.

The official MDK rpms have man pages. 'rpm -qlp main2/openldap-servers-2.1.30-3mdk.i586.rpm' shows among others:
/usr/share/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5.bz2 and /usr/share/man/man5/slapd.conf.5.bz2

- Peder