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Chapter 6. General Usage Information
This chapter contains common information that you will use after installing Red Hat Directory Server 9.1, such as where files are installed; how to start the Directory Server, Admin Server, and Directory Server Console; and basic troubleshooting information. For more detailed information on using Directory Server, see the Directory Server Administrator's Guide.
6.1. Directory Server File Locations
Red Hat Directory Server 9.1 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 host name is
ldap.example.com, the instance name is ldap by default.
The Admin Server directories are named the same as the Directory Server directories, only instead of the instance as a directory name, the Admin 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.
Table 6.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86)
| File or Directory | Location |
|---|---|
| Log files | /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Configuration files | /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Instance directory | /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Certificate and key databases | /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Database files | /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Runtime files | /var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-instance
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-instance
|
| Init scripts | /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 6.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 (x86_64)
| File or Directory | Location |
|---|---|
| Log files | /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Configuration files | /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Instance directory | /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Certificate and key databases | /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Database files | /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance |
| Runtime files | /var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-instance
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-instance
|
| Init scripts | /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/
|
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