Dear All, Happy new year!!!!!!! I am getting problem with running globus-mds. The service starts with OK status, but it stops afterwards: [root@CE etc]# /etc/init.d/globus-mds restart Stopping Globus MDS [FAILED] Starting Globus MDS Using sysconfig: /etc/sysconfig/globus Using GLOBUS_LOCATION: /opt/globus Using grid-functions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/grid-functions Using configuration file: /etc/globus.conf Using grid-mapfile: /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile Using cert: /etc/grid-security/hostcert.pem Using key : /etc/grid-security/hostkey.pem Executing: /opt/globus/sbin/grid_info_daemon - /opt/globus/sbin/grid-info-soft-register -log /var/tmp/edginfo-globus-mds.log -f /opt/globus/etc/grid-info-resource-register.conf -- /opt/globus/libexec/slapd -h ldap://ce.pakgrid.org.pk:2135 -f /opt/globus/etc/grid-info-slapd.conf -d 2 -u edginfo > /dev/null 2>&1 & [ OK ] [root@CE etc]# /etc/init.d/globus-mds status globus-mds is stopped I tried again after killing slapd, but same pattern is repeated. This behaviour is shown after running the yaim configure. Please suggest any fix? Cheers, Asif Osman