I have noticed on my Fedora consumers there appear to be quite a few tombstones going back months even thought the Purge delay is set to a week: ldapsearch -x -b "cn=mapping tree,cn=config" -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W cn=replica nsds5ReplicaPurgeDelay # replica, o=blah.com, mapping tree, config dn: cn=replica,cn="o=blah.com",cn=mapping tree, cn=config nsds5ReplicaPurgeDelay: 604800 --- example tombstone --- # ad82a101-1dd111b2-80a3f995-55bd0000, bob at zzz.com, Blah, blah.com dn: nsuniqueid=ad82a101-1dd111b2-80a3f995-55bd0000, uid=bob at zzz.com,ou=Blah, o=blah.com objectClass: blahPerson objectClass: nsTombstone uid: bob at zzz.com nsParentUniqueId: ccd21704-1dd111b2-80a6a51e-7dae0000 modifyTimestamp: 20090713210513Z There seems to be hundreds of these dating back 6 months to when the server was built. Why are these old entries not being purged? Thanks. Jim.