On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:08 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > I have a CentOS 5.2 machine that is refusing to get past starting the > System Message Bus. This machine is tied into an Active Directory as a test > mail server. A little Googling shows that it's somehow related to being > unable to talk to the LDAP server. How do I figure out what's causing the > problem? Yesterday before rebooting the server, I downloaded and installed > a newer version of NMAP on it, and suddenly yesterday, shortly after I > rebooted it, it won't finish booting. As I said, I looked for an answer on > Google and found that it's tied into LDAP, but I'm not sure 1) what is > causing the problem and 2) how to solve it. > > Can someone here please provide some help? I'm not exactly a linux newbie, > but I am new to tieing linux into Active Directory. ---- There is a CentOS mail list... try adding to the bottom of /etc/ldap.conf timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus which would speed up starting of some services but I'm not sure that is your problem because eventually, each of those services gives up and starts (or doesn't) and moves on. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines