slapd(1Mldap)

slapd -- stand-alone LDAP daemon

Synopsis

/usr/lib/ldap/slapd [-d debug-level] [-f slapd-config-file] [-p port-number] [-s syslog-level]

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. On startup, it normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty. If the -d option 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 stand-alone LDAP update replication daemon. See slurpd(1Mldap) for details.

slapd daemons can be started only if the daemons are listed in the ldaptab(4ldap) file. Daemons are started using ldapstart(1Mldap), and stopped using ldapstop(1Mldap). Details of their ownership can be checked using ldapcheck(1Mldap).

To ensure that the daemon starts at boot time, put an entry in the ldaptab file with the start at boot time option set to ``on''. ldapstart boot uses this information to start the daemon at boot time.

Active slapd daemons can be displayed using ldapcheck.

See Configuring and administering LDAP 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 ``Error levels'' on the ldaptab(4ldap) manual page.
-s syslog-level: Tell slapd at what level debugging statements should be logged to the /var/adm/log/osmlog file. See ``Error levels'' on the ldaptab(4ldap) manual page.
-f slapd-config-file: Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is /etc/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 configuration file, type:

/usr/lib/ldap/slapd

To start slapd with an alternate configuration file, and turn on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:

/usr/lib/ldap/slapd -f /etc/slapd.conf -d 255

References

Intro(3ldap), ldapcheck(1Mldap), ldapstart(1Mldap), ldapstop(1Mldap), slapd.conf(4ldap), slurpd(1Mldap)

Configuring and administering LDAP