On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >>> This looks like a different problem. This is what usually happens >>> if you run setup again without having first cleaned up everything >>> from the prior run. One problem with setup-ds-admin.pl is that >>> you cannot simply run it again - it will detect the previous >>> configuration (however broken it may be). >> >> That's what I thought -- and can't understand. :) This is a fresh >> install of RHEL; I did a find / -name dirsrv and it came up with >> nada. Zero. Zilch! I'm not sure what else to look for? > No dirsrv directories at all? There should be some - try rpm -V > fedora-ds-base - if that has problems, try yum reinstall fedora-ds- > base > finally, try setup-ds-admin.pl -ddd to generate debug output - log > file is in /tmp Thanks, guys. The problem was this: I was trying to create a new LDAP server with the same name (i.e., hostname) as a server that already existed on my network. So, the admin server configuration utility was freaking out. I played with the /etc/hosts file and now life is good. Thanks for the help! Now I have another problem, but I'll create a new thread :) Chris