"Jon Fink" jon.fink@gmail.com writes:
Thanks for the reply - it turns out I was the victim of Debian's package management deciding to install a version of ldapsearch that suddenly looks in /usr/etc/openldap/ for configuration files.
Uh.
Well, that certainly wasn't intentional, and that path is completely wrong for a Debian package. Please file a Debian bug with the details if you haven't already.