openldap 2.0.23 not writing to replica log

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

I have a woody machine running openldap 2.0.23 with
the replog directive set to /var/lib/ldap/replog

if i delete the files replog and replog.lock(0 bytes each),
start slapd, and modify a record, the files are re
created, both with 0 bytes again. is there anything
other then the replog directive that tells slapd
to write to this file?

i posted to the openldap-software list as well
but there seems to be 95% people asking questions
and maybe 10-15% of them get any kind of response:(

hoping someone here has had experience with this.
running some searches i found one other guy who
had the same problem, but never recieved a reply
to his post.

thanks!

nate