Full_Name: Andrew Findlay Version: 2.4.26 OS: OpenSuSE 11.4 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ajf-20110811-slapd.ldif Submission from: (NULL) (2a01:348:28c:1:222:68ff:fe15:3346) Using a slapd.ldif (attached) closely based on the example from servers/slapd/slapd.ldif I find that the server will not bootstrap: $ slapadd -F ./config -n 0 -l slapd-try.ldif _#################### 100.00% eta none elapsed none fast! Closing DB... $ slapadd -F ./config -l data.ldif -b dc=example,dc=org slapadd: bad configuration directory! The problem appears to be this entry in the LDIF: dn: olcDatabase=frontend,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig olcDatabase: frontend olcAccess: to * by * read If 'frontend' is replaced with '{-1}frontend' in both places then the server works. At the least this needs changing in the example file slapd.ldif, in the manpage slapd-config(5), and in the admin guide. Some explanation as to why it is necessary would be welcome too! (I suspect it is because the cn=config DB has already been instantiated as DB zero, yet the frontend has to come ahead of all other DBs in some list). The error message is not very helpful, and winding up the debugging level just sent me up blind alleys so could the server please say a bit more about just what is bad about the config directory?