My backend is hdb.  Also, I'm very sure the rootdn and rootpw are correct, as I have been using it for most of my testing.  As for being denied read for cn=config, I'm pretty sure that is because it doesn't exist.
It does not exist on either the master or slave server.  I am using the slapd.conf configuration method, is there anything else I could show you?
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