Sorry in my previous email there are 3 lines to be discarded: should i use ds_newinst.pl?? i cannot as it is not there which package does contains discard them :) in a few words, the issue at this installation phase is: how fix /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin? in it i see: if [ -d $piddir ] ; then owner=`grep \^sysuser /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/admserv.conf | awk '{print $2}'` dirowner=`ls -ld $piddir | awk '{print $3}'` dirgrp=`ls -ld $piddir | awk '{print $4}'` but in /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/admserv.conf there no sysuser any advice is welcome :) Maurizio