Zabbix 1.1beta7 problems on OSX

[ecet]

Hello!

I have installed zabbix beta7 on osx server 10.4.4.
Things are just fine, but I have some strange console messages (zabbix_server and agentd is running):

cat: /proc/loadavg: No such file or directory
/tmp/zabbix_server.pinger: Bad file descriptor

Yes, I know, that there is no /proc on osx, but zabbix doesn't.
So there are "white hole"-s in the load average graphs. (Periods with no data). The /tmp/zabbix_server.pinger does not exists. Are these bugs, or I'we forgotten something?

[riegersteve]

on mac os x 10.4.6 and zabbix 1.1.1 installed from source same issue

[youraverageboy]

Also having issue /tmp/zabbix_server.pinger: Bad file descriptor

on mac os x 10.4.6 and zabbix 1.1.1 installed from source same issue

I also had the same issue on ox x 10.4 server where it was trying to cat /tmp/zabbix_server.pinger and failing. I'm assuming this file is missing because the ping command that zabbix uses was not completing (either because the path is incorrect or it needs some special fping related commands?) and, therefore, never writing out the file.

I fixed this problem by downloading and installing fping from source and specifying the path to fping in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf.

The default location of fping's install is /usr/local/sbin/ so the location setting should be uncommented and modified like so.....
#Location of 'fping. Default is /usr/sbin/fping
FpingLocation=/usr/local/sbin/fping

This will not do anything to address the load average problem specified in the original post. Hope this information is useful.