Comments on: Zimbra Installation on OpenSUSE 10.3

By: Peter H

Peter H — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:04:19 +0000

Hi,

worked all well for me, starting with a fresh OpenSuSE 10.3 install.

Small remark: the domain name questions are there to ensure the MTA can do its job. If you build the system somewhere else it will accept a domain name not pointing at the machine itself as long as there is an MX record present (i.e. it complains, but continues).

One other comment: has anyone else noticed that Zimbra won’t install on a 64bit version of OpenSuSE (hence the fresh install ?

By: Vavai

Vavai — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:05:36 +0000

Hi Christian,

Sorry for a late reply but thanks for the confirmation.

Have you tried the 5.0.2 version ? It has a nice feature compared to 4.5.X

By: Christian Dingena

Christian Dingena — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:32:46 +0000

To answer the question myself, yes it does. The stats/logger won’t work properly without those lines inserted. I stopped zimbra, edited the syslog file as suggested, restarted the syslogger, restarted zimbra and all is working fine now!

By: Christian Dingena

Christian Dingena — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:36:23 +0000

Thx for the reply.

The installation is running well safe 1 problem, the logger function aka stats are not working for me. I tried another solution (deleting ./jetty/work/* files found on zcs forum) for this but it is not working. Does your changes to the syslog-conf file have anything to do with this by any chance?

FYI, the first DNS checked passed ok, the verification of the domain prompted me for that question. Indeed entering the domain again solved it for me and the installation continued without furhter hickups.

By: Vavai

Vavai — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:58:40 +0000

If you find that your installation is running well without problem, it doesn’t make sense.

I’ve forgot to change the syslog-ng.conf file and I can’t go to finished my installation before edit the file as noticed in the installation tutorial.

DNS checking is OK. The first check is against host name and mx entry and the second case is to verified your domain. Just type your domain name and if the installation accept it, then it should be OK.

In my experience, I got the question if I have an incomplete DNS setting. It would be better if you recheck your DNS hosting.

By: Christian Dingena

Christian Dingena — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:15:22 +0000

Question:

If you omit to edit the file /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
during install, does it make sense to change it afterwards?

Addition:
When during install Zimbra checks for the DNS entries and it passes it will prompt you for the domain name when checking the MX entry. I had to insert the domain name again for Zimbra to continue the install.

By: Vavai

Vavai — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:59:04 +0000

Hi Christian,

Thank you for stopping here and the correction you made.

By: Christian Dingena

Christian Dingena — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:43:41 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial!

1 comment though. The file ‘/opt/zimbra/conf/zmlogrotate’ is read only. I had to 1st ‘chmod’ it to 640 and once modded ‘chmod’ back to 444

You saved my day…

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By: Vavai

Vavai — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:02:39 +0000

Thank you for the correction. I confused which one is the best and better (and right), but I agree with your argument. Seems to choose “If it doesn’t exist”.