After some experimentation it would seem that slapd only sends output to your configured *logfile* when you invoke slapd with the -d option to set your loglevel. Setting a loglevel using the configuration directive does not cause output to be sent to your *logfile*.

Interestingly enough if you do use the logfile directive and the file does not exist slapd will create it (even if you don't use the slapd -d option). But unless you use the -d command-line option on slapd, nothing will be written to it.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark mah042@gmail.com wrote:

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