pramod kulkarni wrote: > I have taken the OpenLDAP 2.4.39 and able to work properly but when I do > slapcat then it hangs and always complains on alock. > > But if I delete alock it works fine. > > I have 4.6.21 version of bdb > I don't know much about alock file in bdb . > > Can you please suggest is it ok to delete alock file for running slapd and > slapcat ? If slapd is stopped you can safely remove it. But you don't have to. You're using 2.4.39. So do yourself a favour and consider migrating to back-mdb to get rid of all the BDB mess. Ciao, Michael.