Chef install of zabbix agent, permissions denied

[Predatorian]

Hello all,

I am running Chef and installing Zabbix Agent that way. The .rpm files copied over, and I was able to run the agent manually, but when I ran chef, and started the service that way, I now receive

zabbix_agentd [8008]: cannot open [/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]: [13] Permission denied

...when I run it manually. Is there something else I need to do?

/etc/zabbix/ directory:

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 May  2 13:10 zabbix

Configuration File:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  587 May  3 09:41 zabbix_agentd.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May  2 13:10 zabbix_agentd.d

[tchjts1]

Your files and "zabbix" directory are owned by root. I always have "zabbix" user own them.

I don't know what "chef" is, but if that is a user-type account and you are trying to launch the files through that.., then I assume that "chef" should own them.

[Predatorian]

Chef is an infastructure management program from Opscode. Its free.

But I found out what was wrong with my zabbix permissions, I had the log file writing to the conf file, and thus, I changed the log file location, and now it works. Thank you guys.

[Predatorian]

AAAAAANNNNNNDDDD, when installing the zabbix agent from the RPMs, I have to change the permissions on the zabbix_agentd.conf file in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf from 644 to 777. Otherwise, it wont read the file.