Hi Howard,

Thanks, that solved it!  -f needed to be fully qualified.  I have also
changed the value in the window's service and openLdap now
starts as a service.  Again, thanks so much for straightening this
out. I have been stumped as to why sometimes open ldap is
able to start up and sometimes I just could not get it to boot up.

Ike




From:        Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To:        Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS,
Cc:        openldap-technical@openldap.org
Date:        12/10/2014 10:48 AM
Subject:        Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP

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Ike Ikonne wrote:
> Hi Howard,
>
> Thanks so much for trying to help me to resolve this issue; the thing is
> that when I initially installed this instance of OpenLDAP, everything came
> up, I was able to create some entries, but all of a sudden, I started
> getting
> this error; that said, how do I specify the olcConfigFile to point
> to the slapd.conf during runtime inside the slapd.conf
> file?

You don't. You specify the path to the slapd.conf file using the -f
option of the slapd command line, as already documented in the slapd(8)
manpage.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ike
>
>
>
> From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
> To: Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS,
> Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
> Date: 12/10/2014 02:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Ike Ikonne wrote:
>  > Hi Howard,
>  >
>  > So, here is my entire slapd.conf file .. just the default
>  > values.
>
> The error message comes from cn=config trying to set the olcConfigFile
> attribute to the name of the slapd.conf file. It's the full pathname of
> the file that's relevant here, not its contents.
>
>  > Ike Ikonne wrote:
>  >  > Hi all,
>  >  >
>  >  > I am getting the following error message and would like
>  >  > to know if anyone has any idea as to why I am getting it:
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > 547e04ae line 55 (index telephonenumber)
>  >  > 547e04ae index telephoneNumber 0x0714
>  >  > 547e04ae line 56 (index cn)
>  >  > 547e04ae index cn 0x0714
>  >  > 547e04af config_back_db_open: No explicit ACL for back-config
>  >  > configured. Using hardcoded default
>  >  > 547e04af config_build_attrs: error 21 on olcConfigFile value #0
>  >
>  > error 21 is InvalidSyntax. So what's the value of olcConfigFile?
>  >
>  >  > 547e04af config_build_entry: build "cn=config" failed: ""
>  >  > 547e04af backend_startup_one (type=config, suffix="cn=config"):
>  >  > bi_db_open failed! (-1)
>  >  > 547e04af slapd stopped.
>  >  >
>
>
> --
>    -- Howard Chu
>    CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com <http://www.symas.com/>
>    Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
>    Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
>
>


--
  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/