Hi, Yes, this is on windows and I am the admin so I do have read/write access to all the directories. Thanks, Ike From: Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt; To: Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, openldap-technical(a)openldap.org, Date: 12/09/2014 08:41 AM Subject: Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP Ike Ikonne wrote: configured. bi_db_open Does the config directory exist? Ownership and permissions allow read/write for slapd process? Ciao, Michael.

Hi Howard, So, here is my entire slapd.conf file .. just the default values. # BDB Backend configuration file # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. ucdata-path ./ucdata include ./schema/core.schema include ./schema/cosine.schema include ./schema/nis.schema include ./schema/inetorgperson.schema include ./schema/openldap.schema include ./schema/dyngroup.schema database config rootdn "cn=admin,cn=config" rootPw secret pidfile ./run/slapd.pid argsfile ./run/slapd.args # Enable TLS if port is defined for ldaps TLSVerifyClient never TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:-SSLv2 TLSCertificateFile ./secure/certs/server.pem TLSCertificateKeyFile ./secure/certs/server.pem TLSCACertificateFile ./secure/certs/server.pem ####################################################################### # bdb database definitions ####################################################################### database bdb suffix "dc=maxcrc,dc=com" rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=maxcrc,dc=com" # Cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should # be avoid. See slappasswd(8) and slapd.conf(5) for details. # Use of strong authentication encouraged. rootpw {SSHA}ddVc4uWRoUvG/fqQzdwm68IxuTSq/Cq5 # The database directory MUST exist prior to running slapd AND # should only be accessible by the slapd and slap tools. # Mode 700 recommended. directory ./data dirtyread searchstack 20 # Indices to maintain index mail pres,eq index objectclass pres index default eq,sub index sn eq,sub,subinitial index telephonenumber index cn From: Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; To: Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, openldap-technical(a)openldap.org, Date: 12/09/2014 08:59 AM Subject: Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP Ike Ikonne wrote: error 21 is InvalidSyntax. So what's the value of olcConfigFile? -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

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? Thanks, Ike From: Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; To: Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, Cc: openldap-technical(a)openldap.org Date: 12/10/2014 02:14 AM Subject: Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP Ike Ikonne wrote: 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. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

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(a)symas.com&gt; To: Ike Ikonne/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, Cc: openldap-technical(a)openldap.org Date: 12/10/2014 10:48 AM Subject: Re: Problems starting an instance of openLDAP Ike Ikonne wrote: came 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. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/