[K12OSN] Help! LDAP DIsappeared

[Mark Cockrell]

Hello all,  
    I need some urgent help here.  We're in our second week of school 
and things have been going fairly well with our new Samba/LDAP server up 
until this afternoon.  Seemingly without reason our PDC stopped 
responding.  I could still ping it, I could still log in as root via 
VNC, I could still do Webmin stuff, but the server simply will not 
authenticate users.  I clicked on "LDAP Users and Groups" in Webmin and 
it said that it couldn't connect to the LDAP server.  I tried a few of 
the things in the /opt/IDEALX/sbin directory and got the same message.  
The system shows that slapd is running, and I haven't changed any 
settings anywhere.  When I rebooted the server to see if that would help 
I couldn't get an X display at the machine- I could via VNC.  The error 
said something about a /var/log/ file being missing.  When I checked I 
found that the whole /var/log directory was missing.  I have no idea how 
that could have happened.  There are only two of us with access to the 
system and neither of us were actively using it at the time.  Whether or 
not those two things correlate, I don't know.  I created a new /var/log/ 
directory and that at least let me log into the system locally.  Could 
there be some file or directory missing that LDAP needs in /var/log?  I 
have only been backing up /home on this server, so I can't just go to 
the archives for whatever I may need.  At the moment I have over 700 
users who can't access anything, so I would greatly appreciate any help 
or advice that anyone could offer.  Thanks in advance.

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C-ya,
Mark
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