Mike Jackson wrote: > David Boreham wrote: > >> >>> >>> >>> I don't know about a watchdog for ns-slapd, I'll leave that up to >>> the more learned LDAP gurus. >> >> >> >> Simple : The LDAP server never crashes. >> >> ;) > > > I have setup an LDAP server watchdog before with OpenLDAP and > Daemontools. It works like a charm. > > To work with daemontools, a daemon should be able to start without > forking itself into the background, e.g. with -f switch or similar, > and log all of it's output to stdout (access, errors, etc). OpenLDAP > can do this, but I don't believe that FDS can (although it would > certainly be a great feature to add because daemontools really kick ass). The Daemontools look very handy! I run qmail under them but hadn't paid enough attention. If ns-slapd is started with -d<error level> it will not fork-and-exit and it logs errors to stdout. That's how to launch ns-slapd in debugger and avoid having to follow children. You can use the regular start-slapd script to pass arguments, like "start-slapd -d0" for normal log level.
