How to tail the LDAP logs

[peter@mxtoolbox.com]

I have a system up and running so searching for this was tough, most LDAP queries are problems getting things to work.

I just need to know how to watch the LDAP in real time. I'm trying to access data from an external program and when I run a query with ldapsearch I get what I want, but my program is not working correctly.

I'd really like to watch the LDAP server in action to see what's being passed in exactly so I can figure out why there are no matching records when I really think there should be.

Help please.

Peter

[jholder]

There are a lot of errors that you can ignore in the ldap logs.
This is because we increased the logging level.

[peter@mxtoolbox.com]

I'll be more clear / brief.

Where are the LDAP logs?

I have found the binary logs in /opt/zimbra/openldap-data but I don't know how to read them.

[brian]

openldap logs via syslog so the details will be in /var/log/zimbra.log. By default we only log error level messages (ldap_log_level 32768). If you want to see query level logging you will need to change ldap_log_level to 256 and restart the ldap process.

% zmlocalconfig -e ldap_log_level=256
% ldap stop
% ldap start

[peter@mxtoolbox.com]

Brian,

Thanks so much. That is exactly what I needed. Fantastic support.

Peter

[hittudiv]

I configured an external program (Pgina) to work on Zimbra's ldap server.
/etc/log/Zimbra.log contains all the logs of zimbra and mail servers and all
is there a way i can log ldap logs in a seperate file?
is there a slapd.conf file somewhere so that i can configure manually?