zabbix agent wont start on SUSE 10

[adil]

I am unable to get the zabbix agent service started on SUSe 10.2.

I am getting the following error:
/etc/init.d/zabbixagent: line 11: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory

I am following the usual procedure to setup the agent on Linux.

Any ideas.

[badener]

Hi,

did you install from rpm or compiled it yourself from source ?
If you do have the sources look at misc/init.d/suse/9.3/zabbix_agentd
that's a sample start script.
Else try exchanging /etc/init.d/functions with /etc/rc.status as that is the one used in the sample file.

[adil]

I am using precompiled agent binaries from RH server. I am copying/configuring the agent binaries on client machines. No problem on RH clients.
I changed the /etc/init.d/function to /etc/rc.status. I'm getting the following error:

Starting zabbix_agentd: /etc/init.d/zabbixagent: line 21: daemon: command not found

I also tried starting the zabbix daemon from the /opt/zabbix/bin
./zabbix_agentd gives me 'Floating point exception'

Do I need to compile agent from source on Suse. If so where can I find the agent source for Suse.

[badener]

I never found rpms for suse

it looks like your binaries won't work on suse - I usually compile the agent from source, just so I can always use the latest version without having to wait for somebody to create the rpm

Getting the source is no problem and compiling is just

./configure --prefix=<where you want zabbix> --enable-agent
make install

that's worked well for me on any platform so far (redhat, suse,bsd)
of course there are things you have to take care of yourself
1. create a zabbix user
2. give appropriate authority on all files/directories to the zabbix user
3. copy the init.d startscript to /etc/init.d
just check http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...e#zabbix_agent

that might look like a lot to do, but once you've succeeded on one system and know what to do you can just script it and install agents (or do mass updates) over ssh