Zabbix-server won't start on Fedora 43

[Agooba]

Installed on Fedora 43 server as per the instructions. Attempted to start the zabbix-server service and it fails. The only change I made to /etc/zabbix_server.conf was to put the database password in. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Output from zabbix_server command:

$ sudo zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix_server.conf 
zabbix_server [2627]: cannot open "/var/log/zabbixsrv/zabbix_server.log": [13] Permission denied

Permissions on zabbix_server.log:

$ ls -la /var/log/zabbixsrv/zabbix_server.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 zabbixsrv zabbixsrv 80379 Nov 21 03:37 /var/log/zabbixsrv/zabbix_server.log

[Andrejs Poddubņaks]

On Fedora, the zabbix-server service runs under the zabbix user (this can be seen in user= in /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-server.service).And your log file belongs to the zabbixsrv user/group:

-rw-rw-r--. 1 zabbixsrv zabbixsrv ... /var/log/zabbixsrv/zabbix_server.log

When the daemon drops privileges to zabbix, it simply does not have the rights to open this file and then you have error message -> [13] Permission denied.

How to solve this problem:
1. In path /etc/zabbix_server.conf use this:

LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log

2. Ensure that the directory exists and belongs to the zabbix user:

sudo mkdir -p /var/log/zabbix
sudo chown zabbix:zabbix /var/log/zabbix

3. Restart service:

sudo systemctl restart zabbix-server

I hope it will help you, good luck!

[Agooba]

Thank you for your help, that indeed solved that issue but I'm now running into another permissions issue:

zabbix_server[26013]: zabbix_server [26013]: cannot create PID file [/run/zabbixsrv/zabbix_server.pid]: [13] Permission denied

Unfortunately, setting zabbix as the owner of that file and even the directory itself doesn't help this time:

rw-r--r--. 1 zabbix zabbix 0 Nov 24 05:26 zabbix_server.pid

SELinux doesn't appear to be the issue here either, switching it off has no impact. It's strange that I'm getting these kinds of errors on a fresh install, is there something I might have missed from the installation guide that's causing all of this? I am using the official guide and packages from Zabbix on a fresh Fedora Core 43 server.

[cyber]

If you use all official stuff, then where does this zabbixsr user come from?

you server conf file also contains pid file location ..
### Option: PidFile
# Name of PID file.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:

set it to something like /run/zabbix/zabbix_server.log (or any other place, where user zabbix has write permissions)