On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:30:33PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > 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. Hi, Michael. Yes, I have tried connecting to port 389 (telnet localhost 389), and, indeed, there is no response, unless I've started SL's ldap server. Also, I would assume that Zimbra's ldap server is NOT started, as I get the complaint DURING the installation of Zimbra. There seems to be a Catch 22 here. > > (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 :) Heh. That's certainly something I don't want to have to do. I.e., I don't think it would be particularly difficult, but it introduces another support headache that I don't need. And I really can't believe that it SHOULD be necessary to jump through those kinds of hoops to get this product installed. > > > 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. I agree that a VM instance of Zimbra looks appealing. OTOH: (a) The set-up is SUPPOSED to consist of no more than typing: ./install.sh (b) The stuff I'm doing at the moment is just proof (or disproof, as the case may be) of principle. When/if I get this working on the ancient PIII machine in my office, I'll look into virtualizing it. Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannon mailto:[log in to unmask] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677