<quote who="Greg Martin">

Gavin Henry wrote:

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Can you slapcat your config back out and show us everything?

slapdcat -n 0 > config.ldif

/usr/sbin/slapd not /usr/local/libexec/slapd ?

Gavin, this is slightly of-topic. I'm curious as to your statement above. my Slackware package installs slapd to /usr/libexec/slapd. There is no other version. Your statement seems to imply there could be two versions. Can you help me understand why?

Default configure; make depend; make and make install installs slapd into /usr/local/libexec

Distros put the binaries where they see fit.

And while I'm at it, can someone explain how slapd knows to act differently when called from one link, say, slapcat, over another, say slapdn. I've been using linux for 5-6 years and have not run across this particular behavior. Does slapd read argv(0) and act differently based on that?

symlinks

Test:

[ghenry@suretec ~]$ cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; use warnings;

print $0, "\n";

[ghenry@suretec ~]$ ./test.pl ./test.pl [ghenry@suretec ~]$ ln -s test.pl slapcat [ghenry@suretec ~]$ ./slapcat ./slapcat

[ghenry@suretec ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/sbin/slapcat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-10-31 19:47 /usr/local/sbin/slapcat -> ../libexec/slapd