On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:03 +0100, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote: > The ldap server crashes in a way that all requests are > accepted but never answered! > Thus all other host cannot be used any more, as user, > hosts and automounter lookups block the system > and the slave ldap servers will never be asked. > > The last time I could start the master but again all > requests did not succeed. When I stop the master all works > well - using the slaves. After slapadd-ing the latest backup > the master works as expected. > > Anyone has an idea? ---- rather than get sucked into speculation of what may be going on in your setup I would suggest that logging is your friend... loglevel -1 #add to slapd.conf and if you don't want to cream your /var/log/messages with an endless stream of data... local4.* /var/log/slapd.log #add to /etc/syslog.conf and 'service restart syslogd' 'service restart ldap' your answer will lie in /var/log/slapd.log Craig