[Fedora-directory-devel] Help with silent installs

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Jan 31 00:05:17 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:18 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:27 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:23 -0700, David Boreham wrote:
> > > Andrew, I think you may have a stale previous install on the machine.
> > > The fact that the installer wants to talk to a configuration DS is
> > > a clue -- it won't do that in a bare-metal first server install.
> > > That might also explain the permission stuff.
> > 
> > I'm certain I do.  And I expect to keep such stale installs, because
> > this must be a reproducible, contained, self test environment.  
> > 
> > How do I convince Fedora DS that it's universe is to be found only
> > inside a certain prefix?  
> > 
> > (I would really like something like the way we run OpenLDAP and Samba4
> > itself, where we run some commands to prep the prefix, then run the main
> > binary with a 'config file here' option.  It then only every looks where
> > that config file points).
> 
> I've moved up to FDS 1.1 on richm's advise, and am now stuck with the
> behaviour of the 'prefix' command in the inf file:
> 
> See my attached file, which I thought would install the configuration
> and data into the prefix, using the binaries in ServerRoot.

For the record, I ended up getting it to work, and fedora DS now starts
outside it's installed box.  This was only achieved with a lot of help
and patience from richm on IRC.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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[General]
SuiteSpotUserID = abartlet
FullMachineName=   localhost
ServerRoot=   /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap
ConfigDirectoryLdapURL=   ldap://127.0.0.1:3389/o=NetscapeRoot
ConfigDirectoryAdminID=   administrator
AdminDomain=   localdomain
ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=   penguin

Components= svrcore,base,slapd

[slapd]
ServerPort= 3389
Suffix= dc=samba,dc=example,dc=com
RootDN= cn=Manager,dc=samba,dc=example,dc=com
RootDNPwd= penguin
Components= slapd
ServerIdentifier= samba4
InstallLdifFile=/home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/fedorads-initial-ldif.inf

inst_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4
config_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4
schema_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/schema
lock_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/lock
log_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/logs
run_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/logs
db_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/db
bak_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/bak
tmp_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/tmp
ldif_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4/ldif
cert_dir= /home/abartlet/samba/samba4/svn/source/st/ldap/slapd-samba4

[base]
Components= base

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