zabbix-server doesn't start (no error message)

[mar]

Hi,

i'm trying to start zabbix-server and zabbix-agent as user 'zabbix' but they don't stay running!
No process! No opened port! only pid file in /var/run/zabbix!

What could be wrong? I don't know where to start finding the error.

regards

[epifanova]

do you insert

zabbix_agent stream tcp nowait.3600 zabbix /opt/zabbix/bin/zabbix_agent

and restart inetd after it?

are you trying to use zabbix_agentd?

[acidzebra]

same problem

followed the manual at http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_server.php

Only want to run the server; zabbix 1.1 on SuSE 10.0
installation went fine, except when I want to start the server no new process is spawned and no error message in logs; when I try to run it again I get
"File [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] exists. Is this process already running ?"

[mar]

followed the manual at http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_server.php

Only want to run the server; zabbix 1.1 on SuSE 10.0
installation went fine, except when I want to start the server no new process is spawned and no error message in logs; when I try to run it again I get
"File [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] exists. Is this process already running ?"

You should check the logs in /tmp like /tmp/zappix_server.log
Then you should see what happend wrong.
For me i set wrong mysql permissions. But log should tell you cleary.
(Remember to start zabbix_server and zabbix_agentd with unpriviliged user eg 'zabbix'.

regards @ thx for first reply

[acidzebra]

Argh

forgot to remove the # on the line 'DBPassword='.

Thanks for the reply; I've been looking all over for the log files.

Shouldn't they be placed in /var/log/zabbix rather than /tmp?
Because really, /tmp is the LAST place I'd look for a log.

[epifanova]

Log location is defined in zabbix_server.conf and zabbix_agentd.conf

by default -- /tmp/zabbix_server.log & /tmp/zabbix_agentd.conf