I'm running slapd, and I notice I always get 3 processes. At loglevel 1096, my daemon.log looks like this:
Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 35 (database^Ildbm) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 38 (suffix^I^I"dc=institute") Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 41 (directory^I"/var/lib/openldap") Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 44 (lastmod on) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 47 (defaultaccess^Iread) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 52 (access to dn=".*,ou=Roaming,dc= institute"^Iby dnattr=owner write) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 61 (access to attribute=userPasswor d^Iby dn="cn=admin,ou=People,dc=institute" write^Iby self write^Iby * none) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27202]: line 64 (access to * by dn="cn=admin,ou= People,dc=institute" write) Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27205]: slapd starting Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27205]: listening for connections on 6, activity on: Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27205]: Feb 26 18:04:34 debserver slapd[27205]: before select active_threads 0 27202, 27204, and 27205 are the pids I see in ps. Yes, "listening for connections on 6" looks really weird. Anybody running slapd? How many processes do *you* see?