Hi there i have installed onto Centos 5.1 using: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Install_Guide I used: setup-ds.pl to create an instance of directory server it seemed goin' well as this test was ok: Verifying the Installation To test the basic operation of the server, use the ldapsearch command: /usr/bin/ldapsearch -x [-h <your host>] [-p <your port>] -s base -b "" "objectclass=*" But...but... when starting console: [root at pdc ~]# /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin start Starting dirsrv-admin: grep: /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf: No such file or directory /var/run/dirsrv is not writable for [FALLITO] ok, fixed it is admserv.conf no problem but... grep sysuser /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/admserv.conf is empty what i missed?? any advice will be apreciated should i use ds_newinst.pl?? i cannot as it is not there which package does contains Maurizio