make not working

[wvw]

Hello

I am trying to install Zabbix 1.4.5 on ubuntu 8.04 server. However the steps I follow get me to a point and then I have some problems.

The steps I follow are as follows:

1) adduser zabbix
enter in new password
confirm
2) adduser zabbix adm
3) su - zabbix
wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/s...x-1.4.2.tar.gz
tar zxvpf zabbix-1.4.2.tar.gz
4) su
5) mysql -e "create database zabbix;"
mysql -e "grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'password';"
6) mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/schema/mysql.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/data/data.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/data/images_mysql.sql
7) su - zabbix
8) cd zabbix-1.4.2/
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql --with-net-snmp \
--with-libcurl --enable-server --enable-agent &&

now for the problem part

make

this is where it says, don't know how to make. make stop. I tried cd up a dir until I was in root dir, but no go. It doesn't break while doing make. It just doesn't do anything when I do a make.

Then I want to do make install and I get the same error. From my knowledge of BSD if make doesn't work then make install will definitely not work.

So I decided to continue

9)vi /etc/services
10) zabbix_agent 10050/tcp # Zabbix ports
zabbix_trap 10051/tcp
11) mkdir /etc/zabbix
12) chown -R zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix/
13) cp misc/conf/zabbix_* /etc/zabbix/

This is where my next problem occurs. When I try to copy, there is no misc dir in my current working dir. And they do not show an absolute path and nor do they give a pwd in this instruction so I have no idea where to find the misc dir. Is it meant to be done with the make, make install instructions?

When I proceed to the next step (which is):

14) vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

I cannot find the file zabbix_agentd.conf???

Any help to solve these issues will be much appreciated.

Warmest Regards
wvw

[Tenzer]

It looks like you are following some kind of howto on installing zabbix, could you provide a link to that so we can see what it tells you to do?

[xs-]

If make reports that it 'doesnt know how to make', there is no Makefile.
If there is no Makefile, your configure command did not complete properly.

I see you are using libcurl, ubuntu has two options for this as a package, you need to choose the one with gnutls.

Please check the output of your configure command, as this creates the Makefile which make uses.

[SierraX]

there are no problem report by ./configure ?

redirect your shell output (1 and 2) in a file an paste it in an service like https://paste.bsdgroup.de/

[wvw]

./configure wants c compiler

Hi People

I decided to reinstall my server using Ubuntu 8.04 LAMP.

When I now run the ./configure command it stops saying there is no acceptable c compiler found in $PATH.

I tried export cc gcc and received no errors however ./configure doesn't like that. It again stopped with the same message.

Is c not installed and I have to install it before I can continue? I did a whereis gcc and it showed it is sitting in /usr/lib/gcc.

Thanks
willemvw

[Tenzer]

Have you installed the package "build-essential"? It contains almost every package needed to compile stuff like Zabbix, and just makes it a lot easier

[wvw]

I did install build-essential....i think, but i'll install it again just make double sure.

[wvw]

Hi

I have installed build-essential and did the ./configure command. Everything went smooth. Then I ran make and it gave me errors (unfortunately I did not capture them) I then did a sudo make install and everything went fine. Is it safe to continue with my zabbix instalation? Should I rather do the make and fix the errors and then do the make install again and go on from there?

Thanks
wvw

[cstackpole]

I too ran into issues building Zabbix on Ubuntu when running make.
`sudo make install` worked for me and I did not have problems running on that system.

From my experiance, you should be OK (obviously YMMV but here's hoping!).

Have Fun!

[wvw]

I am following the link from the wiki to install zabbix:

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doku.php?...:ubuntuinstall

I got to the point where it says:

For small sites this default file will do, however if you are into tweaking your config for your 10+ hosts site, this is the place.

Change this:

# Database user
DBUser=zabbix
# Database password
# Comment this line if no password used
DBPassword=Secret

However my file is read only. When I try to perform a forced write to the file i get an error that says it cannot open the file for writing. Is it ok if I change the files write permissions to save the changes and then change it back to what it is?

thanks
wvw

[cstackpole]

That should work just fine.

[wvw]

That should work just fine.

It worked like a charm

Thanks so much for your help