hi all, I've recently set up a Linux box in order to expand my knowledge on the subject, as well as run a few dedicated services that i see being useful for my home network. i choose fedora core 2, as it was the next evolution of red hat 9 (many of the web servers i host on are red hat 9). i was at first impressed that it seemed to include packages for all of the things i was looking at accomplishing: samba apache php mysql ldap subversion Thinking these packages would be ready to go out of the box, has me in a bit of a quandary, as many seem to take much more to get going. Today i was successful in getting apache and subversion running. Apache ended up being installed, i just need to get it to autostart as a service on boot-up. Subversion took a bit of work, but was able to piece it together using the RPMs linked to on their server. However, I have still yet to get php working with apache. but i will save that for another day. I am interested in getting LDAP set up. I would like to consolidate my address book, for both my windows and linux clients into an LDAP directory. However, I am a bit lost at getting it installed / configured / and running. I have found openldap directories scatterd about my system... and when reviewing the documentation there was a mention of adding config options to a sldap.conf file. only l file similiar was found and that was ldap.conf Any help on getting openldap working on my fedora core 2 system would be much appreciated. This is what has me in a bit of a quandary... so far the things that the o/s install said got installed with it are either not fully installed or configured. I understand that it is up to me to get it configured, and all of that, however, when doing a which or find for the actual program, nothing is returned. even broader searches of the system find no mention of the files even existing on my system (case in point... when looking for the subversion install... searches for subversion, svn, or svnadmin pulled back nothing... which had me install it from the RPMs linked to from the subversion site). I am new to Linux, and am willing to learn / teach myself. However, i'm left a bit confused by having it tell me that these things have been installed for me, yet not actually finding evidence of such. Well, my samba book just arrived from amazon, so i'm going to pour myself into that tonight and see what I come up with. My other use for LDAP was to combine it with samba, so i'd like to get ldap up and running first. thanks in advance for your input, answers, and links to resources. i appreciate it. -- - eric marden - http://xentek.net/
