Environment
Novell eDirectory
Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1
DSBK
Situation
ndsd fails to start
ndsd.log shows one or both of the following errors
Oct 01 08:03:08 The local agent could not be opened - failed, rfl file not found (-6024)
Oct 01 08:14:44 The local agent could not be opened - failed, no access (-672)
dsbk is configured
Resolution
The current roll forward log has been deleted thus ndsd can not start.
Start ndsd with out rfl then turn off rfls
rcndsd start -igrfl
dsbk setconfig -l
To see the if rfls have been disabled use dsbk getconfig
After running dsbk getconfig to see the configuration in /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/log/ndsd.log
dsbkgetconfig
tailf /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/log/ndsd.log
basic dsbk commands
dsbk setconfig -l # turns off rfl keep files
dsbk setconfig -L # turns on rfl keep files
dsbk getconfig # shows configuration The Current roll forward log is the log that must exists.
example of dsbk getconfig output in ndsd.log:
Command line getconfig
Processing command line
Roll forward log status ON
Stream file loggin status ON
Current roll forward log directory /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data/dib/nds.rfl
Minimum roll forward log size 104857600 bytes
Maximum roll forward log size 4294705152 bytes
Last roll forward log not used 00000005.log
Current roll forward log 00000006.log
Additional Information
NOTE: If running eDirectory on Linux systemd distributions such as SLES 12 or RHEL 7, refer to TID 7018431 for additional information.