I've setup an LDAP server with a slave server on Centos 5.3 X86_64, replication works, most of the time client logins work fine but I'm starting to get a error I can't seem to eliminate, it's starting to cause login failures for users and I think it's causing other application failures when they try to auth against ldap. on the client side /var/log/messages shows Oct 22 08:53:23 client sshd[564]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap1: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 22 08:53:23 client sshd[564]: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap2 Oct 22 08:54:01 client ps: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap1: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 22 08:54:01 client ps: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap2 Oct 22 08:54:03 client ls: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap1: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 22 08:54:03 client ls: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap2 Oct 22 08:55:02 client ps: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap1: Can't contact LDAP server Oct 22 08:55:02 client ps: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap2 on the server side I see Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:25 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Oct 22 08:53:26 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.deny: Too many open files ... ldap1 does nothing but ldap and I only have the x86_64 binaries installed. my slapd.conf file on the server looks like ###################################################### include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema allow bind_v2 pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.args access to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by dn.base="cn=domainadm,dc=domain,dc=local" write by dn.base="uid=ldapsync,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=local" read by * none access to * by self write by dn.base="cn=domainadm,dc=domain,dc=local" write by dn.base="uid=ldapsync,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=local" read by * read access to * by * read limits dn.exact="uid=ldapsync,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=local" size=unlimited time=unlimited database bdb suffix "dc=domain,dc=local" rootdn "cn=root,dc=domain,dc=local" rootpw {SSHA}YnnYasdadasdasdasdassd directory /var/lib/ldap # Indices to maintain for this database index objectClass eq,pres index ou,cn,mail,surname,givenname eq,pres,sub index uidNumber,gidNumber,loginShell eq,pres index uid,memberUid eq,pres,sub index nisMapName,nisMapEntry eq,pres,sub index uniqueMember eq,pres index entryCSN eq loglevel sync none logfile /var/log/ldap.log overlay syncprov syncprov-checkpoint 100 10 syncprov-sessionlog 100 ###################################################### ------------------------ Jacob Bresciani