<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca">sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:16:49PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:<br>
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> And ... at the risk of raising ire, while setting up the server can be<br>
> difficult, setting up an ldap client should not be so hard. IHMO RedHat has<br>
> it done correctly with a simple GUI, enter the ldap server IP address, click<br>
> OK, and you're done. Doesn't get any simpler.<br>
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</div>Debian, and by extention, debian based distros, have always maintained that<br>
debconf shall be the way that conf shall be done. It's more a debconf<br>
limitation than anything else.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ahh .... <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure written<br>
down. The problem, as with anything to do with LDAP, is in the details.<br></blockquote><div><br>Very much appreciated. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> For Ubuntu, which I really want to use as a replacement for my RedHat<br>
> servers and move to LTSP 5 from 4.2, I have now tried the install 3 times<br>
> and just the install has behaved differently each time. Not sure why .. I<br>
> installed the same packages each time.<br>
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</div>Have you been doing apt-get *purge* package? Otherwise, you're leaving conf<br>
files about, and debconf will be trying to re-use perhaps incorrectly set up<br>
configs. Getting you nowhere fast.<br></blockquote><div><br>purge? Ok, learn something new every day. I'll try uninstalling with the purge option and try again. <br></div><br></div>Thanks!<br>Dave ...<br>