Zabbix creates OS user "zabbix" ? Installation logs?

[irwan13th]

Hi guys, just recently switched to Zabbix 4.0 , agent running on Solaris/RHEL.
Some of the server admin guys are posed some questions about zabbix that i was not able to scour the answer from the net.
Basically, can anyone help on this?

Zabbix seems to create the "zabbix" user when installed. The user creation should be recorded in, my guess is, the zabbix agent installation log.
I had looked but cannot find the Zabbix agent installation log...just the zabbix daemon log.

Is there an installation log somewhere?

thanks in advance.

[tim.mooney]

On Linux there is not an installation log. At least for RHEL, the operating system user is created in the RPM's pre-install script. I don't remember for certain, but user creation probably is logged to /var/log/secure on RHEL.

Of course, with RPMs you can examine them before installation to see exactly what files are part of the package and what scripts are included and what their contents are.

I haven't looked at the Zabbix agent package for Solaris, is it in traditional SVR4 pkg format, or IPS format?

[irwan13th]

Sorry that it took me a whlie to update here.
Anyway, thx tim.mooney for your reply and yes, the Zabbix for Solaris is in the .pkg format.

[tim.mooney]

Since it's SVR4 pkg format, you can look at the scripts that are part of the package to examine what the package will do.

I don't recall from my days with Solaris 10 and earlier what kind of logs were kept as part of package installation, but it's possible that 'pkg' also writes to logs, probably somewhere under /var/sadm/ .