/etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap is missing

[mscag]

Hello,

Was was having problems with Fedora11+ OpenLDAP 2.4.15*, and then I decided to reinstall everything after the release of Fedora 12.
After installing F12, I installed OpenLdap with the command "yum -y install openldap-*" then I realized that /etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap is missing. I can not start the service with the command "service ldap xxxx" as I receive the response "ldap: unrecognized service".

The "chkconfig" command output does not include ldap either.

Any idea ?

Regards.

[scott32746]

try to remove -
yum install openldap*

you get alot more stuff to install

openldap-clients x86_64 2.4.19-1.fc12 updates 154 k
openldap-debuginfo x86_64 2.4.18-5.fc12 fedora-debuginfo 5.7 M
openldap-servers x86_64 2.4.19-1.fc12 updates 2.6 M
openldap-servers-sql x86_64 2.4.19-1.fc12 updates 126 k


I would think openldap-servers would have init.d start up in it

[mscag]

Hi,

They all are altready installed.

Anything else I can do ?


yum install openldap* Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package openldap-devel-2.4.19-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package openldap-clients-2.4.19-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package openldap-2.4.19-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package openldap-servers-2.4.19-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package openldap-servers-sql-2.4.19-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

[scottro]

Hrrm, very odd. Unless they've renamed the service, which is always possible. I assume there's nothing in /etc/init.d like slapd or something like that?

Is slapd definitely installed?

Run the command

which slapd

[scottro]

AHA. I just tested it. It's now called slapd, which is, IMNSHO, a much better choice--I always thought calling it ldap was a poor choice.

[mscag]

As you guessed,

"which slapd" answered as
"/usr/sbin/slapd"


"ls -l /etc/init.d/slapd"
provided details of
"-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 7422 2009-11-18 17:49 /etc/init.d/slapd"

also
"/etc/init.d/slapd status"
responded as
"slapd is stopped"


as a result
"service slapd status"
works as
"slapd is stopped"

Are all these observations normal ?

[scottro]

Yes. How familiar are you with ldap? I'm sure you know this, but slapd is the actual daemon name, and the /etc/init.d/ldap script simply calls the slapd daemon.

That's why I say that I feel this is a good decision, to change the name of the startup script to slapd rather than ldap.

So, it simply means that yes, you have ldap, and that the server will be started with the slapd command. A quick install indicated that it's off by default, which makes sense, as it would have be configured before starting.

I assume you know something about ldap, or you wouldn't have installed it. (Of course, it's possible you've just installed it for the first time, to study it).

If you're just learning about it for the first time, I'm going to spam my own page on it,

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/ldap.html


Meanwhile, I'm giong to add this information to the page. Very glad you started this thread. I had no idea that they'd changed the name of the startup script.