Re: service not working

["Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl.jorgensen@nice.com>]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 02:00:16AM +0000, Benin Technologies wrote:
> Hi
> 
> what could be the reason of a service not working, while it's init.d 
> script works ?
> 
> I have
> 
> 
> NOT WORKING :
> # service slapd start
> Starting OpenLDAP: slapd failed!
> 
> WORKING :
> # /etc/init.d/slapd start
> Starting OpenLDAP: slapd
> 
> what could be the reason of the service failure ?

I'd suggest checking the logs - e.g. /var/log/daemon.log and
/var/log/syslog - slapd is probably running into a (big) problem after
it starts.


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Karl E. Jorgensen