Zabbix User not recognized!

[jbyers]

I have an odd problem. I created the zabbix user and when I try to start the zabbix_agentd it tells me the user does not exist. I deleted and readded, checked permissions on the passwd and shadow files, reloaded the binary in case of curruption and verified permissions. Nothing seems to work. I set up 5 other machines before this one with no problems. Any ideas as to what is going on here??? :(

Jason

[jbyers]

The user didnt have a shell. I can at least now su into the zabbix user and start the zabbix_agentd. It still tells me the zabbix user does not exist if I try to start it while Im logged in as root.

Jason

[riegersteve]

why do you log in as the zabbix user


dont do that blow away the passwd and start the zabbix daemon via command line or write a script

su -c zabbix_user /usr/local/bin/zabbix_suckerd