slapd

The slapd daemon is the directory server daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on port 389, responding to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections. slapd is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of /etc/rc.local. Upon startup, slapd normally forks and dissociates itself from the invoking tty. If the -d flag is specified, and debugging is set to a non-zero value, slapd does not fork and dissociates from the invoking tty.

The slapd daemon can be configured to provide replicated service for a data store, in conjunction with slurpd, the directory server update replication daemon. See "slurpd" for details.

Syntax

slapd [ -d debuglevel ] [ -f slapd-config- file ] [ -n number-of-connections ]\ [ -p port-number ] [ -s syslog-level ] [ -i ]

The parameters for this command are:

-i	This option tells slapd that it is being run from inetd, the Internet protocol daemon.
-d debuglevel	Turn on debugging as defined by debuglevel. If this option is specified, slapd does not fork or dissociate from the invoking terminal. Some general operation and status messages are printed for any value of debuglevel. debuglevel is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a different kind of debugging information.
-f slapd-config-file	Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is /etc/opt/SUNWconn/ldap/current/slapd.conf.
-n number-of-connections	Specifies the maximum number of simultaneous connections the daemon can handle. The default is 256.
-p port-number	slapd listens on the default LDAP port (389) unless this option is used to specify a different port.
-s syslog-level	This option tells slapd at what level information should be logged to the syslog facility. You can request any combination of the following levels: 1 - Trace 2 - Packets 4 - Arguments 8 - Connections 16 - BER 32 - Filters 64 - Configuration 128 - Access control 256 - Statistics (summary level) 512 - Statistics (detailed level) 1024 - Shell 2048 - Parse 65535 - All information To request more than one category of debugging information, add the masks. For example, to request trace and filter information, specify a syslog-level of 33.