Staying up for 5 minutes and not starting at all are two different things...I assume this isn't starting at all?

Regardless, how about starting a bit smaller? Try:

# slaptest -u -F /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.d which I'd expect to work...

# slaptest -F /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.d which I'd expect to fail...

assuming that fails, maybe add a -d -1 and see if that helps. And I think you mentioned this was Linux, so strace the failing slaptest and see what gets ENOENT?

I'd also be curious if there's anything like SELinux in the way, do you have some additional permissions layer that's expecting slapd to be setuid ldap and is annoyed that your slapadd isn't?

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL wrote:

# ll /var/lib/openldap/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Feb 4 09:09 accesslog drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Feb 4 09:07 accesslog_orig-2014-02-04 drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Jan 14 09:06 monitor drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Feb 4 09:07 openldap-data drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Feb 3 16:37 openldap-data_orig-2014-02-04 drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Feb 6 12:32 run

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [quanah@zimbra.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:36 PM To: Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: RE: Antw: RE: Syncrepl and mmr

--On Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:32 PM -0500 "Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL" John.Borresen@ll.mit.edu wrote:

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All,

The oldDbDirectory statement is pointing to /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data

The accesslog olcDbDirectory statement is: /var/lib/openldap/accesslog

Then one of those does not exist or is not accessible to the openldap user.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount Architect - Server Zimbra, Inc.

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