Hello, Darren: I read your post on the newsgroup: <http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-September/073808.html> I read your post when I was having trouble configuring my apache server to work with ldap. After reading your post, I installed the openldap library on my solaris 8 machine. I have a question, when you install the library, and configure the apache server with the following option after you install the openldap library: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-modules="so cgi headers expires usertrack rewrite" --with-port=80 --with-ldap --enable-ldap --enable-auth-ldap LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib Whenever you do an authentication on apache, does apache query openldap install on your machine? The reason is that I have iplanet installed as my ldap, and I need those queries to be made to my iplanet ldap server rather than openldap(which I need for only the ldap library). When I restart my apache server, here is what I find: [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [warn] (128)Network is unreachable: connect to listener [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [notice] Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) mod_jk2/2.0.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [info] Server built: Mar 11 2004 16:11:52 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:21 2004] [debug] prefork.c(1037): AcceptMutex: pthread (default: pthread) [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1104): [1423] ldap cache init: Error 0 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 1423 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1104): [1424] ldap cache init: Error 0 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 1424 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1104): [1425] ldap cache init: Error 0 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 1425 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1104): [1426] ldap cache init: Error 0 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 1426 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1104): [1427] ldap cache init: Error 0 [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 1427 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:16:22 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 Notice util_ldap.c(1104): [1423] ldap cache init: Error 0 I have a running server, and whenever I do a graceful shutdown, I get this: [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [warn] (128)Network is unreachable: connect to listener [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [notice] Apache/2.0.44 (Unix) mod_jk2/2.0.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [info] Server built: Apr 30 2003 17:02:36 [Fri Mar 12 02:29:39 2004] [debug] prefork.c(1039): AcceptMutex: pthread (default: pthread) [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1066): (17)File exists: [20079] ldap cache init: File exists [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 20079 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1066): (17)File exists: [20080] ldap cache init: File exists [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 20080 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1066): (17)File exists: [20081] ldap cache init: File exists [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 20081 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1066): (17)File exists: [20082] ldap cache init: File exists [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 20082 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [debug] util_ldap.c(1066): (17)File exists: [20083] ldap cache init: File exists [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] jk2_init() Can't find child 20083 in scoreboard [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] shm.init(): No file [Fri Mar 12 02:29:40 2004] [error] mod_jk child init 1 -2 Notice that, here we have this: File exists: [20080] ldap cache init: File exists The old server was configured with iplanet successfully before by someone whom I don't know. I hope I have stated my questions here clearly. Thank you very much for your help Jerry Tian 2A Software Engineering Unniversity of Waterloo _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines