speedy zinc wrote: > What is the role of this watch dog? It would seem more > useful if the watch dog can watch over the slapd > process (and restart it if it dies), but it does not. Hi, You can use daemontools as a watchdog for slapd, which will restart it if it dies. I just wrote a howto on the wiki: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:Daemontools Please test it and mail any mistakes to the list. BR, -- mike