Error when installing a Linux server into an eDirectory Tree

Common errors failing to install a server into a tree using ndsconfig, with the add or new parameters.

1)  n4u_send_command failed with error code=-1

2)  Command socket error: No such file or directory. ErrorCode=2

1) The error: "n4u_send_command failed with error code=-1" is more than likely due to the environment variables not being setup. Please see the online documentation. https://www.novell.com/documentation. Here are a couple of steps you can perform:

• create the file /root/.bashrc
  
• In the file have the line of text: . /opt/novell/eDirectory/bin/ndspath
  

2) The error: "Command socket error: No such file or directory. ErrorCode=2" is probably due to the instances.0 file missing.

• Go to the /etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf/.edir directory and type "touch instance.0"
  
• Re-run the ndsmanage or ndsconfig command to install the server into the tree.

3) If the root's default local is absent (LANG=ru_RU.cp1251, LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251), these errors may also present themselves. When the default locale is set to English, the ndsconfig utility ran withouit any errors.

Use the strace utility to help capture detailed information regarding an error, during the install process.

Note: This error also occurs on a DSFW server while trying to create a test tree prior to restoring a database after losing the database. To fix please uncomment the samspm module from the ndsmodules.conf file during the install (ndsconfig new -x ....) and enable after the restore.