Hi rollout, I think I've spotted a quote missing in file /opt/lcg/bdii/var/lcg-bdii.conf on site BDII, for LCFG/RH73 : mine comes with a line BDII_PORTS_WRITE=2171 2172 2173 and /etc/init.d/lcg-bdii of course prefers BDII_PORTS_WRITE="2171 2172 2173" while executing for PORT in $BDII_PORTS_WRITE ;-do But that's not enough to have the BDII up : $ ldapsearch -x -LLL -h localhost -p 2170 -b mds-vo-name=ipsl-ipgp,o=grid ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server :-( OK, let's continue substitutions : BDII_DIR=/opt/lcg/bdii instead of BDII_DIR=/opt/lcg/var/bdii/tmp in the same /opt/lcg/bdii/var/lcg-bdii.conf now gets every little thing to work very fine. IPSL-IPGP partly up again with LCG-2_4_0! SE will wait until tomorrow but it will benefit a nice SL3 ehancement and thus addidtionnal 36Gb :-{ scsi soft raid :) Note : I just reported it to GGUS as well. Cheers David