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[General] Installation Directives
[General] installation directives specify information of global interest to the
Netscape servers installed at your site. That is, the information you provide here
will be common to all your Netscape servers.
The [
General] installation directives are listed in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1 [General] Installation Directives
Directive Description
Components Specifies components to be installed. The list of
available components will differ depending on the
Netscape servers available on your installation media.
For standalone directory installation, the list of
components is:
• svrcore — Uninstallation binaries
• base — The base installation package
• admin — The Administration Server binaries
• slapd — The Directory Server binaries
This directive is required. At a minimum, you should
always provide:
components= svrcore,base,admin
ServerRoot Specifies the full path to the directory where the
Netscape server binaries are installed. This directive is
required.
FullMachineName Specifies the fully qualified domain name of the
machine on which you are installing the server. The
default is the local host name.
SuiteSpotUserID UNIX only. Specifies the user name as which Netscape
servers will run. This parameter does not apply to the
user as which the Administration Server runs. See the
SysUser directive in Table 4-3 for more information.
The default is user nobody, but this should be
changed for most deployments.
SuiteSpotGroup UNIX only. Specifies the group as which Netscape
servers will run. The default is group nobody, but this
should be changed for most deployments.
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