I will present now a list of several common mistakes made when using this material. I observed this in the classroom when teaching this material in Portuguese. For anyone interested in training please check the calendar at www.sermyadmin.org.
This is very common. What you have to do is:
First, run
openser –c
to check for syntax errors in the configuration file.Check
/var/log/syslog
for errors in the loading of modules.
This usually solves most problems.
Another common mistake is to start using the init script and try to stop using openserctl
and vice versa. Please don't mess with the starting commands. Rule of thumb: