Zimbra

filgood · #11 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 03:50 AM

Hi,

I'm also very intersted in getting zimbra on freebsd. Are there so far any howto's available? What is the progress in getting zimbra in the freebsd ports?

Many thanks,

Filip

zenissin · #12 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 03:44 PM

Like some others on this thread, I too am interested in a Freebsd port of Zimbra.
Small ISP, unfortunately stuck with webmail for the time being, but everything but that server is now bsd.

I don't mind the /opt stuff too much, ala Sun's Java on gentoo, I just want this to work. Honestly, I wonder if a monolithic port dumped into /opt might be easier anyway. I don't want my upgrades of other ports to fark up zimbra.
This is a problem with any app that depends on multiple components. How many times have perl updates screwed other things up for you?

Anyway, I would like to see if we can at least get this working, and get it into ports. I love the ports system (its why I use FBSD) and hate maintaining apps that aren't in it.
Since it's all open source components, what's the major difficulty?
I've never install tomcat, but all the other requirements seem like pretty standard stuff so....

So 2 questions.

1) Does anyone have this working?

2) Can we start a maillist for this?

sparcdr · #13 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 04:47 AM

Hello. I use BSD and Solaris on my networks. I would like to see a port of Zimbra to Solaris SPARC/x86 (i386 centric on the x86 port for compatibility), and FreeBSD 5.x/6.x on i386 arch. I would like to add that both platforms have JDK and JRE supported now. Only about a month ago, Sun made an agreement with the FreeBSD Foundation so that vendors could distribute precompiled binaries of both the runtime and development kit with the same conditions and compatibility that enterprises desire.

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml

OpenLDAP, Postfix, MySQL, Perl, Bash, Cyrus, Sasl, GCC are available on both platforms.

Thank you for considering this, I'm getting tired of having to run RHEL and other Linuxisms on machines that were bought to run FreeBSD here. Zimbra is an awesome suite, and Solaris is an enterprise OS. FreeBSD is quite popular in the datacenter, especially on multi-core and multi-cpu racks, so let's pump out a beta for us to test. I'll personally test them out if you need it done.

jstuart · #14 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 10:08 PM

Hi,

I think I'm getting close to an working copy of Zimbra on FreeBSD 6. What's currently got me stumped is a file called libzimbra-native.so. It's a library that's used by Tomcat which doesn't seem to get compiled locally even when building from a CVS source. The versions that seem to be available are a Linux .so and jnilib files for both ppc and x86 for OSX.

I don't think FreeBSD knows what to do with jnilib files (and my trial seemed to confirm that), so I used the Linux version. (I know very little about OSX, so please correct me if I'm wrong on that.) When I try to load Tomcat I get this in my .out file:

Fatal error: terminating: Failed to loadLibrary(zimbra-native)
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/local/zimbra/zimbra/lib/libzimbra-native.so: /usr/local/zimbra/zimbra/lib/libzimbra-native.so: Undefined symbol "__errno_location"

This makes perfect sense as FreeBSD uses ELF

So my question is:

Is there source for libzimbra-native available?
If yes: has anyone ported it?
If no: would it be possible to make it available?

Thanks!
James