Hi Folks –

I am getting the No PID file for openLDAP error when starting/stopping slapd. 

run]# /etc/init.d/slapd stop

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Halting OpenLDAP...

slapd: [INFO] Can't read PID file, to stop OpenLDAP try: /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop

[root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP with force...

slapd: [INFO] Found no OpenLDAP process running with ldap://oldap.umt.edu:389 ldaps://oldap.umt.edu:636

slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP replication with force...

slapd: [INFO] Found no slurpd process running

[root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd

6723 ?        00:00:00 slapd

[root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd start

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP configuration test...

slapd: [OK] OpenLDAP configuration test successful

slapd: [INFO] No db_recover done

slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP...

slapd: [OK] File descriptor limit set to 1024

slapd: [ALERT] No PID file for OpenLDAP

[root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd

6723 ?        00:00:00 slapd

It seems to show that openLDAP is running on this box, but I can’t connect to it. 

The slapd.conf file is attached.

I see a lot of results about this error out there on the web, but most of the fixes like manually creating the pid file don’t seem to work.  If anyone has any tips I can try, it would be greatly appreciated. 

This is a standalone (test oldap, running 2.4.36) on redhat 6.

Thanks in advance.

Norman Singley

Directory Services

406 243 6799

Norman.singley@mso.umt.edu