Hello again,

I'm suspecting more and more that it was a certificate issue, since the error log references port 636.

However, I've gone over the SSL HOWTO on the FDS wiki and I don't understand what the problem is.  When I installed FDS about 5 months ago I used the information provided here, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/ssl.html#1087158  on setting up a self signed certificate.  This link was posted on the SSL HOWTO on help with using certutil.

I was able to get FDS up and running with SSL after a couple emails to the list and a couple changes to the FDS wiki regarding SSL.  As I said, it's been running well for the past 5 months or so.

My understanding was that the example there created a cert that would be valid for 123 months (-v 120) plus the default 3 months?  I would not expect this cert to have expired already.

That said, I went through the same steps to try and recreate the CA and Server certs for the directory again now.  After doing so without any error messages, I tried to start the directory server again and I'm getting the same message.

Thanks.

- Kevin

On 12/5/05, Kevin Kovach <kovach@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I'm a bit confused this morning.  I woke up and realized that my directory was down, and when I tried to restart it I got the following message ...

# ./start-slapd
[05/Dec/2005:11:52:28 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **

Does this look familiar to anyone?  I'm continuing to look into it, but if it's something simple issue that I'm unaware of I'd appreciate any hints as to what the problem is?

Some background information ...

I've been running Fedora Directory Server for about 5 months without any issues.  It's been running great.  I recently added a root suffix to the directory that went smoothly.  I was able to use the new root without any problems after I added it.  I didn't seem to have any issues with that change.  This the only thing I've done in the past couple months.

I've just tired to save my config and back up the db with ./saveconfig, ./db2bak, ./db2ldif, and ./db2dsml and all attempts result in the same error message.

Also, the only thing printed to the error log is the same message.

# cat errors
        Fedora-Directory/7.1 B2005.201.2115
        ldap.hostname.com:636 (/opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instname)

[05/Dec/2005:11:46:07 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:11:47:44 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:11:49:03 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:11:52:28 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:11:57:33 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:11:58:30 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **
[05/Dec/2005:12:00:11 -0500] - ERROR: ** This beta software has expired **

I'm really at a loss as to what has expired.  Does the directory have some kind of license that has expired?  Can this be a message for an expired cert?  It doesn't really sound like it, but that's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head.

Thanks for any help and/or information.

- Kevin



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