As promised, my log entries from my ldap log we have Oct 31 11:03:01 Menchi slapd[392]: conn=65 fd=7 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:61497 (IP=0.0.0.0:340) Oct 31 11:03:01 Menchi slapd[392]: conn=65 op=0 BIND dn="uid=replicator,o=menchi" method=128 Oct 31 11:03:01 Menchi slapd[392]: conn=65 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=49 text= Oct 31 11:03:01 Menchi slapd[392]: conn=65 op=1 UNBIND Oct 31 11:03:01 Menchi slapd[392]: conn=65 fd=7 closed And from the test modules log we have this. Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: New Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Config Oct 31 10:30:58 Menchi Glue: Init This is all i get, it starts up, runs through new, all the config calls and then init, slapd stays up and seems perfectly well but when anything attempts to bind to it we get nothing at all!