setup basic SLES9 installation
activated multicast routing (route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 device eth0)
Installed the following prerequisites using “Install and Remove Software” functionality from Yast:
- rug, rcd and java2-jre
In case you do not have the SLES9 cd’s at hand, add the following URLs to your list of install sources (”Change Source of Installation”):
- http://prospero.ard.de/install/sles9/i386/core/CD1
- http://prospero.ard.de/install/sles9/i386/sles9/CD1
Installed NICI using rpm -ivh nici-2.6.8-0.02.i386.rpm
Unpacked eDirectory tarball to /usr/local/src/eDirectory
Added source /usr/local/src/eDirectory to list of Yast installation sources
Selected all packages in “Install and Remve Software” which appear und “Selections”->”Novell eDirectory”
In order to resolve dependencies it is necessary to remove the “openldap2″ package
Added the following environment variables:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib:\
/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib/nds-modules:/opt/novell/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/bin:\
/opt/novell/eDirectory/sbin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/opt/novell/man:\
/opt/novell/eDirectory/man:$MANPATH
export TEXTDOMAINDIR=/opt/novell/eDirectory/share/locale:\
$TEXTDOMAINDIR
As an alternative there is the ndspath script which could be called in your .profile or .bashrc login script:
. /opt/novell/eDirectory/bin/ndspath
Start Yast to configure the newly installed eDirectory server under “Network Services”->”eDirectory”
Install iManager 2.6, unpack to /usr/local/src/iManager, cd into /usr/local/src/iManager/installs/linux
./iManagerInstallLinux.bin
Accept all defaults, supply the admin account “admin.user”
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