Hi Is there anything else that runs on port 389 om your machine? Per On 2/2/09 8:22 AM, "kb9vqf at pearsoncomputing.net" <kb9vqf at pearsoncomputing.net> wrote: > And it continues to print "Shutting down due to possible conflicts with > other slapd processes" every single time I try to start the directory > server. No other messages are printed to the error log, all permissions > are OK, and the directory admin server starts with no problem. > > Befuddled, I tried re-running the setup-ds-admin script. Again, the > directory server came online and worked perfectly upon completion of that > script, but it failed upon reboot as before.