Chapter 7.
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General Usage Information
This chapter contains common information that you will use after installing Red Hat Directory Server
8.0, such as where files are installed; how to start the Directory Server, Administration Server, and
Directory Server Console; and basic troubleshooting information. For more detailed information on
using Directory Server, see the
Directory Server Administrator's Guide
.
7.1. Directory Server File Locations
Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 conforms to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards. For more information
on FHS, see the FHS homepage,
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
. The files and directories installed
with Directory Server are listed in the tables below for each supported platform.
In the file locations listed in the following tables,
instance
is the server instance name that was given
during setup. By default, this is the leftmost component of the fully-qualified host and domain name.
For example, if the hostname is
ldap.example.com
, the instance name is
ldap
by default.
The Administration Server directories are named the same as the Directory Server directories, only
instead of the instance as a directory name, the Administration Server directories are named
admin-
serv
. For any directory or folder named
slapd-
instance
, substitute
admin-serv
, such as
/etc/
dirsrv/slapd-example
and
/etc/dirsrv/admin-serv
.
File or Directory
Location
Log files
/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Configuration files
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Instance directory
/usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Database files
/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Runtime files
/var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Initscripts
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dirsrv
and
/etc/
sysconfig/dirsrv
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dirsrv-admin
and
/
etc/sysconfig/dirsrv-admin
Tools
/usr/bin/
/usr/sbin/
Table 7.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86)
File or Directory
Location
Log files
/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Configuration files
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Instance directory
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Database files
/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
Runtime files
/var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-
instance
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-
instance