Openfiler installation instructions

1. Red Hat Linux 8.0 GUI Installation (other releases are incompatible)

1. Select the expert type install
2. Select custom install
3. Create /boot of 128MB (ext3 - primary)
   
4. Create swap partition of equal to memory
5. Create / of 16384MB minimum (ext3 - primary)
   
6. Leave rest of disks space free for later allocation (one primary partition should be free)
   
7. Select Grub as default boot loader
8. Configure networking (do not use DHCP), set the hostname
9. Set firewall to lowest security level (no firewall)
   
10. Configure system clock to your desired setting (System clock should use UTC)
11. Do not configure any network user directories ( go with default setting )
    
12. Install all packages
13. Select yes to create a boot disk and insert a blank floppy (not compulsory)
14. Select your desired video card
15. Select your desired monitor
16. Optionally test X configuration
    
17. Select "text" type login
18. Exit from installer
19. DO NOT apply any software updates from Red Hat
    

2. Volume Configuration

1. Create LVM volumes using fdisk on the available disk space (create extended partition and subpartition with partition type 0x8e (LVM))
   
2. pvcreate as many new physical partitions as necessary  (pvcreate /dev/sda5; pvcreate /dev/sda6; pvcreate /dev/sda7; ...)
3. vgcreate the 'openfiler' volume group with all the pvcreate'd physical volumes (vgcreate openfiler /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7)

3. Openfiler Software Installation

1. Configure system date using ntpdate time.nist.gov
2. Sync hardware clock using hwclock -w
   
3. On first boot, log in and delete the following packages:

• Squirrelmail
• php-imap
• php-ldap
• php-dbg-server
• php-manual
• php-mysql
• php-odbc
• php-pgsql
• php-dbg-client
• php-snmp
• php
• webalizer
• glibc-utils
• mrtg
• nut-cgi
• gnuplot
• octave
• amanda-server
• gd-devel
• gd-progs
• gd

1. Next install/update the patched binary RPMs in the 'packages/i386' directory using rpm -Uvh --oldpackage *.rpm
2. Type in authconfig --kickstart --openfiler (if you get "bad argument ...." error, retract steps)
3. groupadd -g 94 openfiler
4. useradd -u 94 -g 94 -d /opt/openfiler/ -s /opt/openfiler/bin/ofsetup -c "Openfiler Administrator" openfiler
   
5. echo "openfiler:password" | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
6. Copy the contents of 'openfiler' directory to /opt using cp -a openfiler /opt/
7. chown -R openfiler:openfiler /opt/openfiler
8. chmod g+r /etc/shadow
9. chgrp openfiler /etc/shadow
   
10. echo "/opt/openfiler/bin/ofsetup" >> /etc/shells
11. echo "openfiler   ALL = NOPASSWD:   ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
12. cp /opt/openfiler/src/openfiler.init /etc/init.d/openfiler
13. Run /opt/openfiler/src/create-certs.sh and answer questions at its prompts. (You will be prompted among the various prompts twice with the Common Name field. First time, answer with a name for your certificate authority.. something like 'My Company CA' would do. Second time, answer with the DNS name of the server host.)
14. chkconfig smb off
    
15. chkconfig nfs off
16. chkconfig atalk off
17. chkconfig portmap on
18. chkconfig --add openfiler
19. chkconfig openfiler on
20. chkconfig postgresql on
21. cp -f /opt/openfiler/src/smb.conf-default /etc/samba/smb.conf
22. exportfs -r
23. cd /opt/openfiler/etc/httpd
24. ln -s /etc/httpd/build
25. mkdir logs
26. ln -s /etc/httpd/modules
27. mkdir run
28. mkdir -p /opt/openfiler/var/lock/subsys
29. cp -f /opt/openfiler/src/php.ini /etc/php.ini
30. cp -f /opt/openfiler/src/openfiler.pam /etc/pam.d/openfiler
31. cp /opt/openfiler/src/pg_hba.conf /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
    
32. service postgresql start
33. su - postgres -c "createdb openfiler"
34. Import stats database schema and some live stats to initialize the tables with which we will clean later:
    zcat /opt/openfiler/src/openfiler.psql.gz | psql -U postgres openfiler
35. Install pam_auth (This step will be packaged in the next release with the distribution.) - A module for PHP. To do this:
    tar xvfz packages/tar/pam_auth-0.3.1.tar.gz
    cd pam_auth
    phpize
    ./configure
    gmake
    gmake install
    cd ..
    rm -rf pam_auth
    
36. service openfiler start