I've been trying to get the 'logfile' configuration attribute (man5/slapd.conf.5) working but can't seem to. The relevant slapd.conf entries before I define my backend look like:

loglevel stats sync
logfile /tmp/openldap/var/log/slapd.log

and the file exists before I start slapd:

$ ls -l /tmp/openldap/var/log/slapd.log
-rw-r--r--  1 me mygrp 0 Mar 30 15:58 /tmp/openldap/var/log/slapd.log

SLAPD runs fine dumping information into syslog but my logfile stays zero length. How can I get my logfile to get written to also?

Thank you,
 

My setup:

RedHat Enerprise Linux 4.7 (Linux host 2.6.9-78.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 9 15:46:26 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
OpenLDAP 2.4.25
BerkeleyDB 4.8.30
OpenSSL 1.0.0d
Cyrus SASL 2.1.23

configured thusly:

(
    PATH="/tmp/openldap/bin:${PATH}"; export PATH
    echo "##BEG `date '+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'` - configure"

    CPPFLAGS="-I/tmp/openldap/include" \
    CFLAGS="-g" \
    LDFLAGS="-L/tmp/openldap/lib -R/tmp/openldap/lib" \
    ./configure \
        --without-subdir \
        --enable-slapd \
            --enable-modules \
            --enable-wrappers \
        --enable-backends=mod \
            --disable-sql \
            --disable-ndb \
        --enable-overlays=mod \
        --enable-debug \
        --prefix=/tmp/openldap
    echo "##END `date '+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'` - configure"
)

compiled and installed in /tmp/openldap

$ file /tmp/openldap/libexec/slapd
/tmp/openldap/libexec/slapd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped