[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 880 don't check for existing 389-ds instances

[Rob Crittenden]

Martin Kosek wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 15:29 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> We don't need to prohibit existing 389-ds instances when installing IPA,
>>> just that the ports we need are available. Remove this check.
>>>
>>> For master only.
>>>
>>> rob
>>
>> Re-based patch against master.
>>
>> rob
>
> Works ok, I was able to install IPA server next to other dirsrv sitting
> on another port. The installation could get to trouble if another DS
> would sit on a standard port but would be stopped at the moment, i.e.
> ports 389 and 636 would be free. But I think this is a risk we can take.
>
> My only concern is with uninstallation - we shutdown all dirsrv
> instances during the process. Thus, in the end the custom dirsrv
> instance remains stopped.
>
> Martin

We track state of existing instance installations and restart them if 
necessary (though there was a bug preventing this, my patch fixes it).

Instances installed afterward are another matter. This is about the best 
we can do. We do our best to restore state but we can only take it so far.

rob

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