Phil,
The admin server is only used for 389-console/GUI. If you aren't using
the java UI, then you can remove the 389-admin* packages, and remove the
o=netscaperoot suffix (if present).
We are currently working on ramping up our new python CLI tools
(dscreate, dsctl, dsconf, and dsidm) and
In running the old iPlanet (and then, Sun) DS (389's ancestor) for
around a decade I gradually moved towards doing almost everything on the
command line both for efficiency and stability (early versions of the
gui console sometimes crashed the server). Sun's last release, DSEE 7,
came with the
