ando(a)OpenLDAP.org wrote: I debated adding such a check before. I think the first check you added should be removed. In my initial testing there were timing-dependent errors that cropped up when refreshing was occurring while the ldapadd was running. I think it's important that we continue to test for this case, however crudely it's done. Too bad we don't have a reliable means to notify the test script when the consumer has actually started its work. We could query back-monitor but normally (not under valgrind) the refresh could complete before we got the back-monitor search result. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/