slapd - slow starting

[UEMURA (fka. MAENAKA) Tetsuya]

Posted on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:27:39 +0200
by author Eric Masson <e-masson at kisoft-services.com>
> Chicken & Egg problem, the system queries the ldap backend to get
> informations about the account it will use to start the ldap backend.
Indeed. So that by adding `bind_policy soft' to nss_ldap.conf to force
nss to quit querying immediately if LDAP server isn't ready.

Note that by default, LDAP server tries to resolv user:ldap and
group:ldap, and of course both must be resolvable without LDAP server
itself, add user:ldap and group:ldap to /etc files.

Anyway, my nss_ldap.conf has only the follwing 4 lines, FYI.
maenaka@~> grep -vE '^#|^$' < /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf
base dc=ldapserver
uri ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/
bind_timelimit 5
bind_policy soft

maenaka@~> ls -laR /var/run/openldap/
total 8
drwxrwxr-x  2 root  ldap    512 Jul  9 00:13 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  1024 Jul 11 00:14 ..
srwxrwxrwx  1 root  ldap      0 Jul  9 00:13 ldapi
-rw-r--r--  1 ldap  ldap     94 Jul  9 00:13 slapd.args
-rw-r--r--  1 ldap  ldap      6 Jul  9 00:13 slapd.pid

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UEMURA (fka. MAENAKA) Tetsuya <maenaka at pluto.dti.ne.jp>