Installing Zimbra on Centos 5 -

http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/8726-centos-5-install-guide.html

Install Centos custom install with

Editors
Text base Internet
Development Libraries
Development Tools
Administration Tools
Base
System Tools
(you can install GUI if you want)

NOTE: things will go easier if you create yoru A records and MX records for your mail server

Make sure your /etc/hosts file has the line:
127.0.0.1 yourmailserver.yourdomain.com yourmailserver

yum remove sendmail
yum install libtool-ltdl openssl097a compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 compat-db fetchmail

Edit the /etc/sudoers and comment out “defaults requiretty” (put # in front of it).
Edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n and delete the line LANG=”en_US.UTF-8”.

cd /var/temp
wget http://files.zimbra.com/downloads/5.0.1_GA/zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.RHEL5.20080109200629.tgz

when done
tar xzvf 5.0.1_GA/zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.RHEL5.20080109200629.tgz
cd 5.0.1_GA/zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.RHEL5.20080109200629

./install.sh TO INSTALL


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make sure to open the correct ports on your firewall

after browsing the zimbra forums, because I could only send but not recieve, I looked at
/var/log/zimbra.log
The output said that my firwall was blocking my mailserver at port 7025, after opening that port I could send and receive mail.

Installing Zenoss 2.1 on Centos 4.4

zenoss 2.10 on centos 4.4

1. server installation
Install Centos via ServerCD version4.4

yum -y update


2. zenoss installation
see Zenoss Install guide for a clue

http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/install-guides/install-on-el4/

yum -y install net-snmp net-snmp-utils gmp

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-deps-el4.i386.tar.bz2

tar jxf zenoss-deps-el4.i386.tar.bz2

cd zenoss-deps

rpm ivh MySLQ-client*.rpm
rpm -ivh MyySQL-server*.rpm

or

rpm -Uvh zenoss-deps/*.rpm

# download package
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-2.1.0-0.el4.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh zenoss-2.1.0-0.el4.i386.rpm


service mysqld restart
service zenoss start

to survive the reboot use the chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on command, same for zenoss service

# I did not set the mysql password, I'll wait and see if it craps out on me.
#Zenoss seems o have loaded properly, mysql restared fine, zenoss started fine

http://:8080
Username: admin Password: zenoss.

more to come...

first entry

This blog is an account of my journey through linux, redhat, centos, fedora linux to be more specific. I'll mostly try to put stuff that's useful, notes, how-tos that work for me.