On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Paulsen wrote: Greetings,
My aging 10.3.9 Xserve has developed an annoying problem this summer.
We are on break and have no students on campus, so I guess the timing
couldn't be better. Anyway, the server is our OD master with web, AFP,
FTP, VPN, and Windows services enabled.
The symptom is that users cannot log in (networked homes) nor can
laptop users log in to mount specific volumes. However, our Kerio
server still is able to speak to the LDAP server.
If I open Directory Access, select LDAP > Authentication and remove /
LDAPv3/127.0.0.1, Apply, and then add it back, Apply, all is good. The
last couple of days though, it is happening every night. I don't know
the time it fails, but when I come in the next day, you cannot log in
again.
I'm using the OD backup script from Joel Rennich that shuts the
services down and then brings them up again. That has been used for
three years now. I can't think of anything else that would be messing
with that.
Does anyone have any suggestions or seen similar behavior? Thanks.
---
Eric
What version are your clients? This may be client side issues not
server. Any other details to provide? Error logs etc.?
- JD
Clients are 10.4.x and 10.5.x and this affects everyone simultaneously as does the above mentioned remedy, which is why I believe it to be server related. As for the logs, ServerAdmin OD error log is empty. Any other suggestions?
Try putting DIrectory Service in debug mode by issuing:
sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService try a client login & observe the results, and when done re-issue the same command to take DS out of debug mode.
The next time it goes deaf, I'll give this a shot. Thanks. ---
You might want to try it now if authentication is currently working, in order to see what normal, working auth looks like logged via debug mode ie: more info, build a better baseline. |
