Zabbix server doesn't start

[richardc]

I have installed zabbix 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 8.04.
The web interface is configured and works, but when I try /etc/init.d/zabbix-server start as user zabbix or root nothing happens.
No messages in the /tmp/zabbix_server.log

[c0mputernick]

I just posted a similar problem except my logs are in /var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix-server.log

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13770

the problem im having is that when i reboot the machine the /var/run/zabbix-server directory is deleted, so when zabbix tried to create the pid file the directory doesnt exist and it gets an error.

if i create the /var/run/zabbix-server folder and make it owned by zabbix:zabbix and then try to start zabbix-server it works fine, but it doesnt survive a reboot.

do you think you are having the same issue? maybe its not just my machine that has the issue.

[richardc]

I found out the reason zabbix server wouldn't start - I needed to vi /etc/init.d/zabbix-server and change DAEMON=/home/zabbix/bin/${NAME}
to DAEMON=/usr/sbin/${NAME}

[c0mputernick]

I checked mine on ubuntu 9.04 and it was already set to that, how did you install? from source or apt-get?

[richardc]

I installed from source zabbix-1.6.5.tar.gz