Zabbix and gentoo

[sauron]

Zabbix 1.1 included in portage tree.

[Clansman]

Hi sauron;

I've installed zabbix-agent-1.1-r1 and zabbix-server-1.1 on a gentoo server I'm working on and I've found out that it doesn't 'chown' some relevant directories like:
/etc/zabbix
/var/log/zabbix
/var/run/zabbix

A quick look around the ebuilds seems to indicate that thei're correct... at least that's what the section 'fowners' in src_install() seems to indicate.
However, I've retried installing the packages and the same happens; the files and directories are owned by root:root.

Any ideas?

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[sauron]

update portage

[Clansman]

update portage

Are you suggesting that portage itself is not processing the ebuilds properly? What version would you suggest?

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[sauron]

Are you suggesting that portage itself is not processing the ebuilds properly? What version would you suggest?

I'm got this problem at old portage package (not tree) when i'm updated it problem dispared

[Clansman]

Hi,

I think the /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent/server could be further tuned to:
start:
1. if .pid file exists, check for another running instance of the agent; if none found, remove the file and start zabbix-agentd.
2. if zabbix-agentd is unable to bind to it's port, wait a while and try again until some maximum timeout reached (squid does such upon shutdown).

stop:
3. after killing process, see if program really died. check for .pid file left behind and clean it if found.

I'm suggesting this because zabbix-agent frequently chokes on itself. Sometimes /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent stop doesn't remove the .pid, sometimes the process doesn't start because the kernel hasn't let go of the port previously used...

I could do this myself, but I'm not familiar with the gentoo-way of /etc/init.d scripts so maybe there are elegant ways to do this. However I could give it a shot and hand them over to you.

What do you think about it?
Cheers,

[wschlich]

zabbix-agentd is the one to fix, not the init script.

[Alexei]

The TIME_WAIT issue is already fixed in CVS. There is another thread which contains a patch for all interested in ZABBIX Forums.

[Clansman]

The TIME_WAIT issue is already fixed in CVS. There is another thread which contains a patch for all interested in ZABBIX Forums.

heh, thanks alexei.
welcome back to the less-fun-than-wedding-hollidays life.

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