I found that I couldn't use the .gz files but if I extracted them ldif file inside and use that it works. <div>On 18/10/06, John Lucas <<a href="mailto:mrjohnlucas@gmail.com"> mrjohnlucas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The error message (No DB_CONFIG file ...) may result from an ownership problem with /var/lib/ldap and/or the files within it. The directory or certain key files may belong to "root" when they should belong to "ldap". What happens is that slapd can't write the index files or update the db files. Try: chown -R ldap.ldap /var/lib/ldap Then restart slapd. Are you certain that the LDIF files are corrupt? Have you manually inspected them? What form does the corruption take? On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:38, you wrote: > It seems that all my automatically created ldif backup files are corrupted. > I have never been able to back up from them. I have only ever been able to > back up from the ldif file I manually created when I backed up my old > server before transfering to the current one. Why would that be? > > On 18/10/06, Krsnendu Dasa <<a href="mailto:krsnendu108@gmail.com">krsnendu108@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I tried to reinstall smbldap and slapadd my backup but I got this error > > message and I can't start ldap now. > > > > [root@k12ltsp ldap]# slapadd -l /var/smbldap-backups/smbldap.ldif.4.gz > > bdb_db_open: Warning - No DB_CONFIG file found in directory > > /var/lib/ldap: (2) > > Expect poor performance for suffix dc=harekrishna,dc=school,dc=nz. > > str2entry: entry -1 has no dn > > slapadd: could not parse entry (line=34) > > > > On 18/10/06, Krsnendu Dasa <<a href="mailto:krsnendu108@gmail.com">krsnendu108@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > My ldif file got corrupted again. I reinstalled it using rm / slapadd / > > > chown ldap etc. > > > That seemed to go okay but now smb doesn't work with the above message. > > > My windows users can't access important files. > > > The smb.conf file I had before was overwritten by a generic one so I > > > copied my original file back in its place. > > > I can stop and restart smb but it always reads "smbd dead but pid file > > > exists" > > > > > > What should I do? -- "History doesn't repeat itself; at best it rhymes." - Mark Twain | John Lucas <a href="mailto:MrJohnLucas@gmail.com">MrJohnLucas@gmail.com </a> | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 <a href="http://mrjohnlucas.googlepages.com/">http://mrjohnlucas.googlepages.com/</a> | | 18.3°N, 65°W AST (UTC-4) | </blockquote></div>