Compile agent with different config path

[Tenchi]

How can I compile the agent to look for the zabbix_agentd.conf at a path different then /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf ?
I tried :

--prefix=/etc/oph --exec-prefix=/etc/oph --bindir=/etc/oph --sbindir=/etc/oph --libexecdir=/etc/oph --sysconfdir=/etc/oph --datadir=/etc/oph --enable-static --enable-agent

so it would put all files into /etc/oph but that didn'y work.

[Tenchi]

Also, howto change the user it runs as ?

[Tenchi]

I was able to find that editing zabbix_agentd.c in /src/ folder, on line 53:
static char DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE[] =
can be changed to the path I wanted, however I am still unable to discern howto change what user the zabbix agent runs as.

[Calimero]

--- src/libs/zbxnix/daemon.c    2009-04-03 16:44:05.000000000 +0200
+++ src/libs/zbxnix/daemon.c.new        2009-06-12 13:27:41.626634000 +0200
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
        pid_t                   pid;
        struct passwd           *pwd;
        struct sigaction        phan;
-       char                    user[7] = "zabbix";
+       char                    user[9] = "zabagent";

        /* running as root ?*/
        if((0 == allow_root) && (0 == getuid() || 0 == getgid()))

For example ...

[Tenchi]

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

[NOB]

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

Perfect.

Do you want to change the source code every time a new ZABBIX version
comes up ?

We don't and don't have time for that.

If you really want to start the ZABBIX agent under a different user,
just modify the startup script to use this different user.
That's it.
You don't have to modify the sources for every version.

The same is true for the configuration file.
Just specify it on the commandline in your startup script.

Just some hints

Regards

Norbert.

[Tenchi]

That sounds good, but what are the command line options to set that ? I did not see it in ./configure --help

[Calimero]

Modify the startup script (init.d/zabbix_agentd) to setuid() before zabbix is acutally started.

If you're on debian (and derivatives like ubuntu) you can use start-stop-daemon.
If you're one RHEL/CentOS, theres the daemon function in /etc/init.d/functions