enabling log files

[Florian Diesch]

"Donny George" <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am running an ubuntu 8.04 machine and after installing openldap i wanted
> to find the error associated with it and i wanted to view the log file wit
> the command and it returned
>
> root at ubuntu:/# less /var/log/slapd.log
> /var/log/slapd.log: No such file or directory
>
> is there something that i should i do to activate the log file , i know
> about the file /etc/syslog.conf, but i am not sure wat shud i modify to see
> the log files

If OpenLDAP is using syslog for logging then you find all log
messages in /var/log/messages. If OpenLDAP isn't using syslog but
writes its log files directly you have to check the OpenLDAP
docs for how to specify the log file. As I'm not using OpenLDAP I
can't help with the details.



   Florian
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