In working to have the Samba4 test environment configure fedora-ds. I'm using ds_newinst.pl, but it starts the DS once it is created. According to that script, I could modify it, but: # if for some reason you do not want the server started after instance creation # the following line can be commented out - NOTE that if you are creating the # Configuration DS, it will be started anyway $cgiargs{start_server} = 1; As I understand it, a new standalone install will create the configuration DS. Aside from wanting a separate configure/start sequence, I would like to be able to modify the dse.ldif to fix up some parameters, and redo the schema, before the slapd process starts. For the parameter modification, another option might be to have a 'modify ldif' in addition to the 'initial ldif', but I still need a way to clean out the schema. Thoughts? Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com