Using Silent Installation
[General] Installation Directives
[General] installation directives specify information of global interest to the
Netscape servers installed at your site. That is, the information you provide
here will be common to all your Netscape servers.
The [General] installation directives are listed in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1
Directive
Components
ServerRoot
FullMachineName
SuiteSpotUserID
SuiteSpotGroup
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[General] Installation Directives
Description
Specifies components to be installed. The list of
available components will differ depending on the
Netscape servers available on your installation media.
For standalone directory installation, the list of
components is:
• svrcore—Uninstallation binaries
• base—The base installation package
• admin—The Administration Server binaries
• slapd—The Directory Server binaries
This directive is required. At a minimum, you should
always provide:
components= svrcore,base,admin
Specifies the full path to the directory where the
Netscape server binaries are installed. This directive is
required.
Specifies the fully qualified domain name of the
machine on which you are installing the server. The
default is the local host name.
UNIX only. Specifies the user name that Netscape
servers will run as. This parameter does not apply to
the user that the Administration Server runs as. See the
SysUser directive in Table 4-3 for more information.
The default is user nobody but this should be changed
for most deployments.
UNIX only. Specifies the group that Netscape servers
will run as. The default is group nobody but this
should be changed for most deployments.
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