Hi,

> Greetings.  We're trying to install the free version of Zimbra on a SL
> 5.0 system (i386).  Most of the installation goes smoothly, but 
> toward the end we have a problem with a failure to initialize LDAP.  
> If we omit SL's version of LDAP (Zimbra has its own), we get a 
> failure to connect to port 389.  If we run the SL version of LDAP 

Have you checked that your server is listening on port 389?

Have you tried connecting to port 389?

Do you know if Zimbra's own LDAP is started and listening on port 389?

Shutting down openldap from SL5 means (to me) you'd need to start another ldap
server (zimbra's) before it will connect. You cannot have two services
listening on the same at the same time.

> (shouldn't be necessary, AFAIK), the Zimbra setup script connects to 
> port 389 but complains that TLS is an unsupported option.

Then just recompile the openldap that comes with SL (recreate the RPM if you
like - src.rpm's are readily available) and turn of TLS. Then start openldap
and that error will go away - possibly being replaced by another one :)

> If you have any suggestions, please send 'em to me.  Thanks.

I personally wouldn't go the route you're going when using SL5. I'd personally
look for a Xen VM (appliance) of Zimbra (I'm pretty sure there's one out
there), load into as a Virtual machine and then spend my time on Zimbra config
instead of setup. That's one of the major reasons to go to SL5 and setup time
reduction is one of the major reasons for VM appliances.

Regards,

Michael.

> 					- Mike
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