openldap not listening on port 389

September 18, 2006

categories:

LDAP
Linux

For some reason openldap stopped running and listening on port 389 after our server had a problem…

The database files (BDB type) were actually corrupted…

This is how to fix the issue and recover the DB :

install db4-utils (under Red Hat)
cd /var/lib/ldap (or whatever directory in which the DB files are located)
/etc/init.d/ldap stop
run /usr/sbin/slapd_db_recover in the directory
/etc/init.d/ldap start

The server was up again after fixing the DB

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