SLAPD (8)
Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/slapd [-d debug-level]
[-f slapd-config-file] [-p port-number]
[-s syslog-level] [-l syslog-local-user] [-i]
DESCRIPTION
Slapd
is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
port 389, responding
to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
slapd
is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
/etc/rc.local .
Upon startup,
slapd
normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
If configured in
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf ,
the
slapd
process will print its process ID ( see
getpid (2)
) to a
.pid
file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
.args
file ( see
slapd.conf (5)
).
If the
-d
flag is given and debugging is set to some non-zero
value,
slapd
will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
Slapd
can be configured to provide replicated service for a database with
the help of
slurpd ,
the standalone LDAP update replication daemon.
See
slurpd (8)
for details.
See "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide" for more details on
slapd .
OPTIONS
-d debug-level
Turn on debugging as defined by
debug-level.
If this option is specified,
slapd
will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
operation and status messages are printed for any value of debug-level.
debug-level is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
-s syslog-level
This option tells
slapd
at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
syslog (8)
facility.
-l syslog-local-user
Selects the local user of the
syslog (8)
facility. Values can be
LOCAL0 ,
LOCAL1 ,
and so on, up to
LOCAL7 .
The default is
LOCAL4 .
However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
local users with the
syslog (8)
facility.
-f slapd-config-file
Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf .
-p port-number
slapd
will listen on the default LDAP port (389) unless this option is given
to override the default.
EXAMPLES
To start
slapd
and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
tt
/usr/sbin/slapd
To start
slapd
with an alternate configuration file, and turn
on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
tt
/usr/sbin/slapd -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -d 255
SEE ALSO
BUGS
When using the LDBM database backend, the Modify RDN operation does not
update the attribute values in the entry that are affected by the change.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP
is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
OpenLDAP
is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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