If i am reading the code correctly (and looking at the logging below), the line that has a severity of 'crit' should dump info for the ldap server we are connecting to. In my case (and Eric's too) only 'ldap://:389' is printed; sometimes even with an odd number like 23395496 (see Eric's first post). [Tue Nov 30 22:01:43 2010] [crit] openLDAPConnection(): util_ldap_init failed for ldap://:389 [Tue Nov 30 22:01:43 2010] [warn] Unable to open initial LDAPConnection to populate LocalAdmin tasks into cache. [Tue Nov 30 22:01:44 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Nov 30 22:01:44 2010] [crit] openLDAPConnection(): util_ldap_init failed for ldap://:389 [Tue Nov 30 22:01:44 2010] [warn] Unable to open initial LDAPConnection to populate LocalAdmin tasks into cache. The code that logs this error looks like this [mod_admserv/mod_admserv.c:517] ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_CRIT, 0 /* status */, NULL, "openLDAPConnection(): util_ldap_init failed for ldap%s://%s:%d", data->secure ? "s" : "", data->host, data->port); It seems that the struct 'data' is not filled with the correct values. BTW. this code was taken from 389-admin-1.1.12.a2 I hope this helps, Regards, Trisooma -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users