Installation guide

General Usage Information
This chapter contains common information that you will use after installing Red Hat Directory
Server 8.0, such as where files are installed; how to start the Directory Server, Administration
Server, and Directory Server Console; and basic troubleshooting information. For more detailed
information on using Directory Server, see the Directory Server Administration Guide.
1. Directory Server File Locations
Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 conforms to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards. For more
information on FHS, see the FHS homepage, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. The files and
directories installed with Directory Server are listed in the tables below for each supported
platform.
In the file locations listed in the following tables, instance is the server instance name that was
given during setup. By default, this is the leftmost component of the fully-qualified host and
domain name. For example, if the hostname is ldap.example.com, the instance name is ldap
by default.
The Administration Server directories are named the same as the Directory Server directories,
only instead of the instance as a directory name, the Administration Server directories are
named admin-serv. For any directory or folder named slapd-instance, substitute admin-serv,
such as /etc/dirsrv/slapd-example and /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv.
File or Directory Location
Log files /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Configuration files /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Instance directory /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Database files /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Runtime files
/var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-instance
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Initscripts
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dirsrv and
/etc/sysconfig/dirsrv
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dirsrv-admin and
/etc/sysconfig/dirsrv-admin
Tools
/usr/bin/
/usr/sbin/
Table 7.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86)
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