Hi, I'm about to embark on an installation of 9.3. In some articles I've been looking at (about core components like postfix, for example) there is an implication that if I want to use this with another product, say, OpenLDAP, then I must re-compile from the source with certain options set. If I were to use YaST to install postfix and OpenLDAP, apart from tweaking the configuration files, are they already configured to work together? (I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) Many Thanks John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:37, John wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to embark on an installation of 9.3.
In some articles I've been looking at (about core components like postfix, for example) there is an implication that if I want to use this with another product, say, OpenLDAP, then I must re-compile from the source with certain options set.
If I were to use YaST to install postfix and OpenLDAP, apart from tweaking the configuration files, are they already configured to work together?
(I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
You are worrying way too much. You can certainly use all those out of the box. Have you been building Linux From Scratch or something, that you worry so much about compile options? The integration stuff is ready made by the fine SUSE engineers, so you don't have to. :-)
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:37, John wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to embark on an installation of 9.3.
In some articles I've been looking at (about core components like postfix, for example) there is an implication that if I want to use this with another product, say, OpenLDAP, then I must re-compile from the source with certain options set.
If I were to use YaST to install postfix and OpenLDAP, apart from tweaking the configuration files, are they already configured to work together?
(I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
You are worrying way too much. You can certainly use all those out of the box. Have you been building Linux From Scratch or something, that you worry so much about compile options? The integration stuff is ready made by the fine SUSE engineers, so you don't have to. :-)
Thanks for your reassurance. I'm relatively new to Linux and don't want to get involved in recompiling unless absolutely necessary. Some articles I've read, however, suggest that packages need to be built to ensure their association with others, eg postfix + OpenLDAP, which worried me. You have put my mind at rest - again, Many Thanks :-) John
John wrote:
(I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
You are worrying way too much. You can certainly use all those out of the box. Have you been building Linux From Scratch or something, that you worry so much about compile options? The integration stuff is ready made by the fine SUSE engineers, so you don't have to. :-)
Thanks for your reassurance. I'm relatively new to Linux and don't want to get involved in recompiling unless absolutely necessary. Some articles I've read, however, suggest that packages need to be built to ensure their association with others, eg postfix + OpenLDAP, which worried me.
It's not possible to use every combination of the listed services out of the box, but it should be possible to configure postfix with ldap. On the other hand, if you want to use mysql as backend to manage postfix you do need to recompile since suse compiled the ldap support into the postfix rpm but not the mysql support. Sandy
Sandy Drobic wrote:
John wrote:
(I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
You are worrying way too much. You can certainly use all those out of the box. Have you been building Linux From Scratch or something, that you worry so much about compile options? The integration stuff is ready made by the fine SUSE engineers, so you don't have to. :-)
Thanks for your reassurance. I'm relatively new to Linux and don't want to get involved in recompiling unless absolutely necessary. Some articles I've read, however, suggest that packages need to be built to ensure their association with others, eg postfix + OpenLDAP, which worried me.
It's not possible to use every combination of the listed services out of the box, but it should be possible to configure postfix with ldap. On the other hand, if you want to use mysql as backend to manage postfix you do need to recompile since suse compiled the ldap support into the postfix rpm but not the mysql support.
Sandy
Aha, a caveat! Is there a published list of the combinations supported? John
Op maandag 23 mei 2005 21:06, schreef John:
Is there a published list of the combinations supported?
There is something listed here: http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Suse-compile-options The information has been taken from the src.rpms, hopefully it helps a little. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
John wrote:
It's not possible to use every combination of the listed services out of the box, but it should be possible to configure postfix with ldap. On the other hand, if you want to use mysql as backend to manage postfix you do need to recompile since suse compiled the ldap support into the postfix rpm but not the mysql support.
Sandy
Aha, a caveat!
Is there a published list of the combinations supported?
I don't think so. For postfix you can get a list of the supported lookup maps by executing "postconf -m": katgar:~ # postconf -m static sdbm cidr pcre nis regexp environ proxy ldap btree unix hash This is the standard rpm of Suse 9.2. Sandy
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