If you plan to install Domino V11 on CentOS 8.1 you have to do some steps before because there are some requirements:
Install CentOS 8.1.x ( without any graphical interface – you won´t need it )
- Install perl
- To run the Domino console installation you need perl to run it
- yum install perl
- I don´t exactly know if the libXp library is also needed ( it was in the last releases ) but I installed it
- yum install libXp
Afterwards I created the default user und group for the Domino Server:
- sudo groupadd notes
- sudo adduser notes
- To add the user “notes” to the group
- sudo usermod -g notes notes
- To add the user “notes” to the group
- Set up the notes user to use DOMINO_LINUX_SET_PARMS:
- # vi /home/notes/.bashrc
- Add to the end of the file: export DOMINO_LINUX_SET_PARMS=1
- Update the Security/Limits File:
- Edit /etc/security/limits.conf using root and add or modify the lines:
- notes soft nofile 65535
- notes hard nofile 65535
- (Use 65535 for 64 bit Linux for both soft and hard limits, per HCL 2019/12.
- Edit /etc/security/limits.conf using root and add or modify the lines:
- Update SELINUX:
- $ vi /etc/selinux/config
Change to SELINUX=disabled and save.
- $ vi /etc/selinux/config
Then you have to check if the firewall is active – you can do this with the following command:
- firewall-cmd –state
- If it´s running you can stop and disable it with
- systemctl firewalld stop
- systemctl disable firewalld
- or you have to add the rules for running your Domino V11 server for the required ports
- 1352
- 80/443
- 25
- 389
- …
Afterwards you just have to install your Domino V11 server, implement the perfect start/stop scripts of Daniel Nashed ( which are extremely well documentated ), configure your Domino server and run a great collaboration tool !!
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Anyone else run into this error ….
“JRE libraries are missing or not compatible….”
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OS is RedHat 8.3 where I see this. I was able to install it on another system with the same OS, but can’t remember how I worked around it.
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Hi,
This is really useful and worked well however, as a Linux numpty, it is worth pointing out that when installing Centos make sure /local is on its own partition and not part of /
As I found out the hard way, default install allocated 50G to / and the rest to /home. The notes install uses /local/notesdata which is on the / partition and therefore only has 50G available and will rapidly cause the filesystem to run out of diskspace!
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Hi Rainer,
“To run the Domino console installation you need perl to run it”
Thus you don’t need perl, if you use …/server -listen and the Remote-Server-Setup, right?
I didn’t install libXp and all seems to run well without it (about 5 servers).
“groupadd notes; adduser notes; usermod -g notes notes”
For ages I simply use “adduser notes”, which automatically create the home group “notes” for this user and assigns him to it.
“DOMINO_LINUX_SET_PARMS”
I couldn’t find any reference for this environment variable in the documentation, but this Red Book: “IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 for Linux on zSeries Implementation”. I think, it’s irrelevant on Linux.
Firewall: These are the commands I use (for copy and paste):
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=http
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=https
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=ldap
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=ldaps
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=smtp
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-service=smtps
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-port 1352/tcp
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-port 2050/tcp
firewall-cmd –zone=public –permanent –add-port 8585/tcp
firewall-cmd –reload
firewall-cmd –list-all
The result could look like this:
public (active)
target: default
icmp-block-inversion: no
interfaces: ens192
sources:
services: cockpit dhcpv6-client http https ldap ldaps smtp smtps ssh
ports: 1352/tcp 2050/tcp 8585/tcp
protocols:
masquerade: no
forward-ports:
source-ports:
icmp-blocks:
rich rules:
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Hi Thomas, thanks for going through my post and for adding your comments. I think there are a lot of ways to get things handled 😉
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