Fresh install problem, no files in /etc

[Kerrygeek]

I am installing on a fresh server, CentOS 5.2 and Zabbix 1.6.2. Per the manual, I built the database, untarred the file, did config and make install. I see all the files under the /usr/src directory but it didn't put anything at all under /etc/. I didn't see any errors go by while make install was running, is there a log somewhere that might tell me what happened? I tried it also with 1.6.1 which I have running on an older machine, it did the same thing. It did put the files under /usr/local/sbin/ like it should for the server, agent, etc. Here's what I've got:
# locate zabbix_server.conf
/usr/src/zabbix-1.6.1/misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf
Notice it didn't find a .conf file under /etc/, there's not even an /etc/zabbix directory.

Any ideas where I fouled up? I used:
./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl
and I didn't see any errors go by but it went by pretty fast. It worked fine on my other machine, the only difference was that I used 1.6.1 and CentOS 5 instead of 5.2, is there a problem with using 5.2?

Any ideas?

Tnx,
Kerry

[MrKen]

Hi Kerry,

In the Zabbix manual page 48, steps 8, 9, 10. It says "You may take misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf as example".

This is probably not very clear. But you need to do it manually.

mkdir /etc/zabbix
cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix
cp misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix

You might also need to modify those files. Have a look at this install guide, it's for 1.4 but it's still the same procedure. http://www.muck.net/?p=16

Good luck
MrKen

[Kerrygeek]

Thanks, I'll give it a try this morning. I didn't remember doing that back in Dec. when I set up my demo box, but I've slept since then and I'm no spring chicken anymore... ;-)

Thanks for the help and also for the link, I'm checking it out now. I'm also a mysql newbie so I've been looking for tuning tips, that will be my next project.

Thanks for your help!
Kerry

[Kerrygeek]

That was it, thanks for the link, it's running fine now. Maybe I used an RPM or something when I set up that demo box, I don't remember doing a lot of those things but the link was just what I needed.

Kerry