If I specify slapcat  -f slapd.conf -b "dc=example,dc=com" -l backup.ldif
Then no messages will be displayed in the command window and it will be in the same state.
 
I see somewhere code hangs in the alock.c file I think the slapcat process not able to grab the lock,is it correct? or something different.

Regards,
Pramod 

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
pramod kulkarni wrote:
> I am runing slapcat command like this, slapcat -f slapd.conf -l backup.ldif
>  is it wrong ?

If you have more than one database you have to use either one of command line
options -n or -b.

Ciao, Michael.