mysql errors

[bisbell]

When I try to start zabbix server I get the following to my zabbix_server.log file.

10551:20080509:123406 Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.4.4.
10551:20080509:123406 **** Enabled features ****
10551:20080509:123406 SNMP monitoring: YES
10551:20080509:123406 WEB monitoring: YES
10551:20080509:123406 Jabber notifications: NO
10551:20080509:123406 IPv6 support: NO
10551:20080509:123406 **************************
10551:20080509:123406 Failed to connect to database: Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/csw/mysql4/var/mysql.sock' (13) [2002]

But if I try to connect to my database just using the command line it seems to work just fine.

# mysql -uroot -pTEST -S/opt/csw/mysql4/var/mysql.sock zabbix

And I have all of these same parameters in my zabbix_server.conf file:

# Database name
# SQLite3 note: path to database file must be provided. DBUser and DBPassword are ignored.
DBName=zabbix

# Database user
DBUser=root

# Database password
# Comment this line if no password used
DBPassword=TEST

# Connect to MySQL using Unix socket?
DBSocket=/opt/csw/mysql4/var/mysql.sock

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

[bisbell]

It was just a permissions problem. The mysql user owns the /opt/csw/mysql4/var directory and had 700 permissions on it keeping the zabbix user from getting to the socket file. Changing the permissions on the dir to 755 fixed the problem.

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