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