On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbaln...@legalaid.mb.ca>wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:16:49PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote: > > > And ... at the risk of raising ire, while setting up the server can be > > difficult, setting up an ldap client should not be so hard. IHMO RedHat > has > > it done correctly with a simple GUI, enter the ldap server IP address, > click > > OK, and you're done. Doesn't get any simpler. > > Debian, and by extention, debian based distros, have always maintained that > debconf shall be the way that conf shall be done. It's more a debconf > limitation than anything else. > Ahh .... > > I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure > written > down. The problem, as with anything to do with LDAP, is in the details. > Very much appreciated. > > > For Ubuntu, which I really want to use as a replacement for my RedHat > > servers and move to LTSP 5 from 4.2, I have now tried the install 3 times > > and just the install has behaved differently each time. Not sure why .. > I > > installed the same packages each time. > > Have you been doing apt-get *purge* package? Otherwise, you're leaving > conf > files about, and debconf will be trying to re-use perhaps incorrectly set > up > configs. Getting you nowhere fast. > purge? Ok, learn something new every day. I'll try uninstalling with the purge option and try again. Thanks! Dave ...
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