Difficult Ubuntu Install

[Crashmaxx]

I have installed the scalix .debs according to the manual install instructions on a Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP server:
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... stallation

And I am having a lot of trouble with it. It seems that I can't reverse resolve my ip to my hostname. I am really confused with bind9 and such. Do I need a DNS to get scalix to run properly? Before I installed bind9, I had my /etc/hosts setup properly so that localhost was a special name for 127.0.0.1 and hal was my hostname and local was my domain. Hostname would give hal and hostname --fqdn would give hal.local, just as I wanted. But reverse resolve didn't work.

That has caused me some confusion in setting up the scalix config files. "example.com" is a very poor analogy to my host and domain setup. So I suspect that is the cause of a lot of my issues.

I installed and setup the outlook connector, but now I can seem to use internet mail and I lost all my old messages. Scalix mail seems to work, but the public folders do nothing.

Worst of all, something in this config is killing all the basic network functions of the server. In syslog there are a ton of LDAP errors, and I am loosing all network access intermittently. I can't even ping the IP some of the time. Which is a major pain when you SSH into the server.

Anyway, any help getting this setup? This is killing me and I need it all to work and go into use ASAP.

Also, why is there not an install script for Debian, nor Ubuntu? Most of these changes I'm doing are setting things to defaults. And it made me remove postfix and setup sendmail, which I don't much like, as that broke the old internal email. Someone really needs to get proper Debian support, this is really bad.

[jaime.pinto]

Hey Crashmaxx

I'm glad to see another ubuntu enthusiast on this forum.

Just hang in there. Our support for ubuntu is a sure bet to come very soon. For example, in our facilities we used to have a mix of pretty much every brand of linux/unix (Irix, aix, solaris, redhat, suse) and windows/mac. We slowly but surely migrated over 90% of the clients to ubuntu, and 100% of the rendering cluster node. It's a very sweet OS and the adoption rate and acceptance on the part of users is beyond anything I experienced in all my years in IT, in particular because of the graphics. It's a perfect choice if one wants a single OS for everything across the board.

I can also tell everyone else (since you probably know that already), that most services will work perfectly under ubuntu, and they are much easier to install and setup. But often times I'm "forced" to stick with redhat because some of the developers have never even heard of the word ubuntu! So, what the heck! Ubuntu is becoming the ruler of the universe for just about 2 years. Lets be patient.

Sorry I can't help on this issue but we're not alone. Somebody will.

Jaime

[Crashmaxx]

Thanks for the reply.

I have found the problem. Scalix had nothing to do with the network interfaces dying. It seems that the PCI NIC has died or is otherwise not working. I had both my NIC's bonded together for load balancing and I thought to failsafe, but I guess not. The ailing NIC brought down the good one and slowly killed all my connections. I went back to a single NIC setup and everything is working fine. It was just a strange coincidence that it died at the same time I setup Scalix.

I was also trying to use BIND9 to get DNS and a reverse DNS, but it proved far to complicated for my needs and switching to DNSMasq made proper hostname resolution a breeze.

I still had a few more bugs from my previous attempts to fix it, but I think I have them all sorted now. And I got webmail to work by switching from java6 to java5.

So now everything is working quite nicely, and it is all very impressive.

[albatroz]

I tried to install Scalix on xUbuntu 7, because xUbuntu is supposed to be
the lightest of the Ubuntus.

I followed this link
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... ebian_Etch

However I am getting these results.
What does it mean invalid substitution?

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What should the name of your primary mailnode be? scalix
Please enter the admin password for the Scalix admin user (sxadmin)? scalix
Please enter a password for the ldap query user? scalix
Please enter a password for the db user? scalix
Please enter the external ip address of your Scalix box? 192.168.1.199
install-scalix.sh: 21: Syntax error: Bad substitution
vmware@scalix:/home/instaladores$ sh install-scalix.sh
What should the name of your primary mailnode be? scalix
Please enter the admin password for the Scalix admin user (sxadmin)? scalix
Please enter a password for the ldap query user? scalix
Please enter a password for the db user? scalix
Please enter the external ip address of your Scalix box? 192.168.1.199
install-scalix.sh: 21: Syntax error: Bad substitution

[christoph.lukas]

Hi,

sorry for the late answer but I have been on holiday the last weeks.

My script makes use of some bash specific features, so you should run it using bash not sh. Either make it executable with

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chmod 755 <script-name>

and run it with

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./<script-name>

or simply run

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bash <script-name>

Regards,
Christoph