Installation guide

Would you like to continue with setup? [yes]:

• Pressing Enter accepts the default answer and proceeds to the next dialog screen. Yes/No

prompts accept y for Yes and n for No.

• To go back to a previous dialog screen, type Control-B and press Enter. You can backtrack

all the way to the first screen.

• Two prompts ask for a password. After entering it the first time, confirm the password by

typing it in again. The password prompts do not echo the characters entered, so make sure to

type them correctly.

• When the setup-ds-admin.pl finishes, it generates a log file in the /tmp directory called

setupXXXXXX.log where XXXXXX is a series of random characters. This log file contains

all of the prompts and answers supplied to those prompts, except for passwords.

• Some options, such as s (silent) and f (file) allow you to supply values for the setup program

through a file. The .inf file (described in more detail in Section 3, “Silent Setup”) has three

sections for each of the major components of Directory Server: General (host server), slapd

(LDAP server), and admin (Administration Server). The parameters used in the .inf can be

passed directly in the command line. Command-line arguments with setup-ds-admin.pl

specify the .inf setup file section (General, slapd, or admin), parameter, and value in the

following form:

section.parameter=value

For example, to set the machine name, suffix, and Directory Server port of the new instance,

the command is as follows:

/usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl General.FullMachineName=ldap.example.com

“slapd.Suffix=dc=example, dc=com” slapd.ServerPort=389

NOTE

Passing arguments in the command line or specifying an .inf sets the defaults

used in the interactive prompt unless they are used with the s (silent) option.

Argument values containing spaces or other shell special characters must quoted to prevent

the shell from interpreting them. In the previous example, the suffix value has a space

character, so the entire parameter has to be quoted. If many of the parameters have to be

quoted or escaped, use an .inf file instead.

Chapter 1. Preparing for a Directory Server Installation