Hello,

 

I have installed 389 Directory Server (v 1.2.2) and Admin Server (v1.1.8) on RHEL 5.4, and in the process of getting SSL/TLS configured I have somehow gotten the administration server into a state where it will not start. When I run the init script it fails, and the /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv/error file has the following entry:

 

[Wed Dec 23 10:15:32 2009] [crit] host_ip_init(): PSET failure: Could not retrieve access hosts attribute (past error = ) Configuration failed

 

Googling the problem led me to http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:AdminServerLDAPMgmt – which contains directions for modifying the nsAdminAccessAddresses and nsAdminAccessHosts entries, which I did. The entries are currently as follows:

 

nsAdminAccessAddresses: *

nsAdminAccessHosts:

 

Which from my reading of the documentation suggests that access is unrestricted, but starting the server still fails. Does anybody out there have a suggestion as to what it is I have broken?

 

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Anthony