I have just finished recording a video on Installing a Domino Sandbox on Linux for David Leedy at Notes in 9.
Update : David has now posted the video
The video should be posted in the next week or so. I have pitched it at developers with no experience of Linux and perhaps not much experience on Domino installs.
I would normally recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux but on this occasion I used CentOS because I wanted to provide the easiest possible path to a developer wanting to deploy a Domino sandbox.
Note that CentOS is not a supported platform and you will not be able to raise issues with IBM.
I also wanted to post the video because it includes a tip from Daniel Nashed that makes it possible to install Domino on 64 bit RHEL 6.x . The Domino install requires 32 bit libraries which I found next to impossible to install. Daniel suggested adding the following line to the etc/yum.conf file and it works a treat :
multilib_policy=all
The steps required are set out below, I will update this article with a link to the video when it is published.
Thanks again to David Leedy for the encouragement.
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Cheat Sheet – Installing Domino 8.5.3 UP1 FP3 on CentOS / RHEL 6.3 64 bit
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Produced by Sean Cull – http://www.seancull.co.uk / http://www.focul.net
Please see blog post at http://seancull.co.uk/cheatsheets/linux
**** This install is for a developer sandbox within a firewall.
**** It is not a hardened production server
**** No warranty of any kind whatsoever is provided
MAC users will want to use alternatives to Putty and WinSCP
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Prerequisites
A real or virtual server with a minimal CentOS 6.x ( not supported by IBM ) or RHEL 6.x installed and the network configured
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Once the OS is installed log in using Putty or similar
Makes copy / paste easier and is generally nicer
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
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RHEL ONLY – Subscribe to RHEL updates
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subscription-manager register
subscription-manager subscribe –auto
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Update OS
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yum update
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Modify yum settings to retrieve 32bit dependencies for Domino
Use WinSCP as root
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modify the file /etc/yum.conf to include multilib_policy=all
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Install some useful utilities
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yum install wget
yum install ntpdate
yum install system-config-net*
yum install system-config-firewall*
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Disable Firewall
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system-config-firewall
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Change Network setting if required
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system-config-network
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Check if a mail server is running
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netstat -t -a | grep LISTEN
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Check what services start at boot
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chkconfig
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disable sendmail
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chkconfig –del sendmail
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Install dependencies required by Domino
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yum install perl glibc libgcc libXtst libXmu libXp libXft libXi libstdc++
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Create a user and group called notes
Set password for this user
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sudo useradd -m notes
sudo passwd notes
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create a temporary folder for Notes installs
Give them short sensible names first
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mkdir /tmp/dom_installs
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upload install files to /tmp/dom_installs using WinsCP program or similar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winscp/
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Change to the temporary folder
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cd /tmp/dom_installs
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unpack the domino install
this bit was missing from the video
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tar -xvf dom_install_filename.tar
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start the domino install
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linux/domino/install
Accept the licence ( you should have one ) and all of the default responses except :
“Server Setup” should be [2] – Remote
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Launch the IBM Remote Server Setup Client
This is an OPTIONAL install as part of the Notes Administrator Client
It can be found Lotus Applications Folder ( Start > All Applications > Lotus Application )
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Finish the installation taking care to download the id files to windows
Make sure the HTTP server is selected
Deselect “Prohibit Anonymous Access”
Stop the listener task
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Start the Domino server
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change to Notes user
su notes
change to Notes Data Directory
cd/local/notesdata
start the server
/opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server
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Browse to the URL and confirm the server is working
You should see the help files
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Shutdown the server and install UP1 and FP3
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Shutdown by typing quit
change back to root
su
change back to the install folder
cd /tmp/dom_installs
tar -xvf fp3.tar ( or whatever you have called it )
cd linux/domino
../install
cd /tmp/dom_installs
remove directory
rm -rf /tmp/dom_installs/linux
remove the install folder
cd /tmp
rm -rf /tmp/dom_installs
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Install Daniel Nashed’s Startup and shutdown scripts
http://www.nashcom.de/nshweb/pages/startscript.htm
Thank you Daniel
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Using WinSCP drop the 2 files into the locations in the readme
as root ….
cd /opt/ibm/lotus
chmod 755 rc_domino_script
cd /etc/init.d
chmod 755 rc_domino
Add Domino to the startup sequence
chkconfig –add rc_domino
Domino will now start and stop gracefully with the server.
The following commands are also available ( plus others )
/etc/init.d/rc_domino start live
/etc/init.d/rc_domino stop
/etc/init.d/rc_domino monitor
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Change ULimit Settings to stop warnings in console
Use WinSCP as root
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edit /etc/security/limits.conf to include the following lines
notes soft nofile 20000
notes hard nofile 49152
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Notes.ini settings
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Some useful Linux commands
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reboot
halt
Ifconfig IP address report
df –h Disc space report
top Resource usage report
netstat -tup netstat -t -a | grep LISTEN List active connections to/from system
chkconfig list services started at bootup
iptables -L -n -v List firewall rules
rm -rf directory delete a directory with files included
su notes switch to the notes user
Update : SMTP troubleshooting
Some people have found that the Postfix smtp server was installed and is hogging Port 25
This is not showing up in the TCP check above
Disable this using chkconfig –del postfix