/etc/init.d/zabbix-agentd not presetn ?

[ghislain]

hi,

since upgrading to zabbix5.2 none of my zabbix system agent works. After checking the service file is totaly absent:

/etc/init.d/zabbix-agentd


do not exist. I have purged the package and reinstalled several time. Any other meeting this issue ?

Ghislain.

[tim.mooney]

You don't say what operating system this is, but most Linux distros have moved to 'systemd'. You probably want to read up on the 'systemctl' command, and learn commands like

systemctl list-units
systemctl list-unit-files
systemctl status zabbix-agent.service

etc.

[ghislain]

No i dont use systemd.

do you mean zabbix is only compatible with systemd init from 5.2 and onward ?

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/installation/requirements

do not list systemd as requirement, i dont find any note on the release note saying it has abandonned all sysv-init systems , did i miss it ?

regards,
Ghislain.

[tim.mooney]

No i dont use systemd.

do you mean zabbix is only compatible with systemd init from 5.2 and onward ?

No, I'm not saying that.

I'm saying that the pre-built Linux packages provided by Zabbix.com are generally mostly aimed at current, popular Linux distros. Most of the current popular Linux distros are using systemd, hence the pre-built Zabbix packages have a service file for systemd.

zabbix-agent will work fine with systems that use traditional sysv-init. If you can find one of the pre-built packages that's targeted at a distro & version that doesn't use systemd, then it will likely include the sysv-init script.

You haven't said what OS or distro you're using, what version it is, and where the Zabbix packages came from. Did you build your own zabbix-agent packages? Are you trying to use packages for a different distro and version, that might be more modern than the distro/version you're using?

[ghislain]

i use the zabbit repo for debian. My debian are 9 and 10 mostly using sysvinit as systemd is not compatible with our setup.

[tim.mooney]

i use the zabbit repo for debian. My debian are 9 and 10 mostly using sysvinit as systemd is not compatible with our setup.

Based on the information I found on the Debian wiki, systemd has been the default on Debian since Debian 8 (Jessie). Hence, the official packages for 8 and later would include a service file for systemd.

You can either download the source code for zabbix and take one of the init scripts from there (probably try misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-agent and adjust as appropriate) or find one of the older agent packages and extract the init script from it, and then use it with your install.

[cyber]

You don't say what operating system this is, but most Linux distros have moved to 'systemd'. You probably want to read up on the 'systemctl' command, and learn commands like

systemctl list-units
systemctl list-unit-files
systemctl status zabbix-agent.service

etc.

Zabbix docs should catch up on this also.. They still refer to "service" everywhere..