[Fedora-directory-users] Trying to run FDS on Core 5

Richard Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Oct 5 18:05:21 UTC 2006


Dick Steflik wrote:
> All,
> I'm trying to run FDS for a class I teach, I have previously used the 
> Netscape Directory Server on NT but the hard drive on that machine 
> went belly up this last summer. I decided that Linux would be the way 
> to go for a replacement machine. Anyway, I downloaded the 
> fedora-ds-1.0.2-1FC5.i386.opt.rpm and proceded with the install. 
> Install seemed to go OK; I started slapd and tried a test query and it 
> worked. I want to load a doctored up version of the old Airius.ldif 
> file so I started looking for the admin-server. Anyway it seems like 
> there are supposed to be start/stop scripts on /opt/fedora-ds but 
> there aren't....any ideas what might have happened to them? or where I 
> get them from.

Sounds like install did not go OK.  Try removing and installing from 
scratch, then run setup and capture the output.

> Also, I'm running a 512Mb machine which should be OK; but when I try 
> to start up the Java based console I get an "out of memory" message. I 
> would like  to think that since only about 30 people are ever going to 
> be doing  ldap queries against it that 512Mb of RAM should be OK (it 
> was for the old Netscape Directory Server). I could live without the 
> Java based console if I could get the admin server running as that is 
> the way I always administerd the old machine.
>
> Dick Steflik
> Binghamton University
> Binghamton, New York
>
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