389-ds-base/man/man8/setup-ds.pl.8

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.TH SETUP-DS.PL 8 "May 18, 2008"
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.SH NAME
setup\-ds.pl \- Set up an instance of Directory Server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B setup-ds.pl
[\fI--options\fR] \fI-- \fR[\fIargs\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Set up a Directory Server instance.  Creates the configuration
files for an instance of Directory Server based on a few parameters
like the hostname, port number, and directory manager information.
Can be run in interactive mode with different levels of verbosity, or
in silent mode with parameters supplied in a .inf format file or
on the command line.
.PP
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.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below:
.TP
.B \fB\-\-help\fR
This message
.TP
.B \fB\-\-version\fR
Print the version and exit
.TP
.B \fB\-\-debug\fR
Turn on debugging
.TP
.B \fB\-\-silent\fR
Use silent setup \- no user input
.TP
.B \fB\-\-file\fR=\fIname\fR
Use the file 'name' in .inf format to supply the default answers
.TP
.B \fB\-\-keepcache\fR
Do not delete the temporary .inf file generated by this program
.TP
.B \fB\-\-logfile\fR
Log setup messages to this file \- otherwise, a temp file will be used
.PP
For all options, you can also use the short name e.g. \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-d\fR, etc.  For the \fB\-d\fR argument,
specifying it more than once will increase the debug level e.g. \fB\-ddddd\fR
.PP
args:
You can supply default .inf data in this format:
.IP
section.param=value
.PP
e.g.
.IP
General.FullMachineName=foo.example.com
.PP
or
.IP
"slapd.Suffix=dc=example, dc=com"
.PP
Values passed in this manner will override values in an .inf file given with the \fB\-f\fR argument.
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.SH AUTHOR
setup-ds.pl was written by the Fedora Directory Server Project.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
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This manual page was written by Michele Baldessari <[email protected]>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the Directory Server license found in the LICENSE file of this
software distribution.  This license is essentially the GNU General Public
License version 2 with an exception for plug-in distribution.