"Headless" or remote installation?

[burhankhalid]

Is is possible to install Scalix without the use of X? I have a remote hosted mail server on which there is no X desktop system (only shell access). Is it possible to install Scalix on this server? The operating system is one that is supported.

[Clemens]

Yes, you can do a command line install of Scalix by adding --cli when you call the setup file.

Clemens

[jch]

ssh (sometimes with -X) will also give you remote X access -- remember X is a network protocol.

jch

[florian]

:-) Scalix 10 Installer will automatically start in CLI mode when there is no DISPLAY varialble set, so most of the time the --cli switch is not even needed. Just start it and it will probably know what to do!

-- f.

[rabbie]

:-) Scalix 10 Installer will automatically start in CLI mode when there is no DISPLAY varialble set, so most of the time the --cli switch is not even needed. Just start it and it will probably know what to do!

-- f.

I am running an openvz virtual server and am trying to install scalix inside of it.

I have tried installing it with:

./scalix-installer and also ./scalix-installer --cli
and in both occasions I get the following error:

Error: Can't find rpm in /usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin::/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin. Aborting.

RPM is definately installed and i have created a vlink to it under /usr/local/sbin but I still receive this error...

Can anyone please help me with this ?

Thanks.

[rabbie]

Found the problem.

This error was caused by my VE not having "which" installed.

the command "yum install which " fixed that.

[florian]

Thanks. Bug http://bugzilla.scalix.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14020 raised due to poor error message.

Florian.

[rabbie]

Another problem with the remote install / cli install... within the fedora VE.

Configuring Server...
Creating Scalix Server message store (may take a few minutes)... (-)

This error message is just sitting there with 0 load on the box and has been churning away for the past 20 minutes....

Error log shows:

2006-12-04 15:31:29,821 INFO Checking if any deprecated packages are installed.
2006-12-04 15:31:30,128 INFO Install end
2006-12-04 15:31:30,384 INFO Mailnode name derived from FQDN: mail,rabs
2006-12-04 15:31:42,019 WARNING configured mail domain could not be determined
2006-12-04 15:31:42,549 INFO dns domain rabs.ath.cx does not have an MX record so user must enter default domain
2006-12-04 15:32:08,720 INFO Creating Scalix instance...(please wait -- this might take several minutes)

[rabbie]

Ok, it all comes down to this error:

'sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory

I have tried setting an unlimited amount of memory for the VE but it still will not work... Does anyone know the command for openve to specify that the VE can use as much memory as is available ?

Thanks.

Rabbie.

[florian]

well, maybe the amount of memory that is available is really not big enough. scalix as an absolute minimum needs about 200 MB of memory.

Note that for a minimm supported configuraiton we need 512 MB.

Florian.

[rabbie]

Thats the funny thing as the server I am attempting to build on has 1GB of RAM and only has this one VE configured...

I am going through the openvz documentation to try to find a solution for this.

I will keep you all posted.