2016-12-20 19:34 GMT+01:00 Singley, Norman <norman.sing...@mso.umt.edu>: > Hi Folks – > > > > I am getting the No PID file for openLDAP error when starting/stopping > slapd. > > > > run]# /etc/init.d/slapd stop > > slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration > > slapd: [INFO] Halting OpenLDAP... > > slapd: [INFO] Can't read PID file, to stop OpenLDAP try: /etc/init.d/slapd > forcestop > > [root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop > > slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration > > slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP with force... > > slapd: [INFO] Found no OpenLDAP process running with > ldap://oldap.umt.edu:389 ldaps://oldap.umt.edu:636 > > slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP replication with force... > > slapd: [INFO] Found no slurpd process running > > [root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd > > 6723 ? 00:00:00 slapd > > [root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd start > > slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration > > slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP configuration test... > > slapd: [OK] OpenLDAP configuration test successful > > slapd: [INFO] No db_recover done > > slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP... > > slapd: [OK] File descriptor limit set to 1024 > > slapd: [ALERT] No PID file for OpenLDAP > > [root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd > > 6723 ? 00:00:00 slapd > > > > > > It seems to show that openLDAP is running on this box, but I can’t connect > to it. > > > > The slapd.conf file is attached. > > > > I see a lot of results about this error out there on the web, but most of > the fixes like manually creating the pid file don’t seem to work. If anyone > has any tips I can try, it would be greatly appreciated. > > > > This is a standalone (test oldap, running 2.4.36) on redhat 6. > >
Hi, seems you are using LTB OpenLDAP packages, or at least LTB OpenLDAP init script. Try to run: # service slapd debug You should get information on why it is not starting. Clément.