Problems starting agentd service

[aiko]

Hello All,

I am having a problem with the agentd service for zabbix 1.4.2 for centOS 5

Everytime I try to start the service...I get the following error...

/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd: line 81: /usr/local/zabbix: is a directory
/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start: zabbix_agentd could not be started

The server service starts fine.....

I have tried to manually copy over the zabbix_agentd but with no avail....


I followed the direct instructions from this site;

http://www.muck.net/?p=16

Any help would be greatly appreciated.....

TIA,
Aiko

[alekstef]

Open /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd and find "/usr/local/zabbix". Now replace it with "/usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd" (without the "" of course) Then try to start the Zabbix Agent Daemon again. It should work.

[aiko]

Problem still occurs

Hello,
Thanks for your fast reply but I am still not able to start the service after following the above advice. I am about to remove the installation and start from scratch.


Thanks,
Aiko

[mucknet]

The variables in your init script should look like the following, and when you run a find /usr/local/zabbix you should see one of the two results below. If you don't, please post up the first 50 lines of your init file (head -50 /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd), and show us whats in your zabbix directory (find /usr/local/zabbix)



1.4.1 placed its binaries under bin/, and in 1.4.2 they changed to placing the binaries under sbin/ (which seems like an odd time to make the change.. why not wait until 1.5 or 1.6?)

on 1.4.2 the top of the init script should look like:

# base zabbix dir
BASEDIR=/usr/local/zabbix
# pid file (as of 1.0 beta 10)
PIDFILE=/var/tmp/zabbix_agentd.pid
# binary file
ZABBIX_AGENTD=$BASEDIR/sbin/zabbix_agentd

and you should see the following results from running find /usr/local/zabbix

[root@zabbixdemo ~]# find /usr/local/zabbix
/usr/local/zabbix
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_sender
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_get
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_server
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agent

on 1.4.1 the results should be similar, but with bin/ instead of sbin/

# base zabbix dir
BASEDIR=/usr/local/zabbix
# pid file (as of 1.0 beta 10)
PIDFILE=/var/tmp/zabbix_agentd.pid
# binary file
ZABBIX_AGENTD=$BASEDIR/bin/zabbix_agentd

[root@zabbixdemo ~]# find /usr/local/zabbix
/usr/local/zabbix
/usr/local/zabbix/bin
/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_sender
/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_get
/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_server
/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_agent