Zabbix Server seems to be running but systemctl shows

[mwildam]

I installed zabbix server 5.2.4 on debian 10 buster from the sources. I could not use the prepared debian packages, because the hardware architecture behind is an IBM powerpc in the particular case.

Zabbix works fine except after creating a systemd service file to manage it via systemctl it does not come to an active state, neither after complete reboot of the machine.
systemctl -type=service shows it in the list as "activating":
zabbix-server.service loaded activating start start Zabbix Server

If I run systemctl start zabbix-server, it does not return to commandline - so somehow the start process does not come to an end.

I do not have the problem with the agent which basically has the same systemctl config file (as shown here: https://kifarunix.com/how-to-install...28-centos-7/2/ ):

[Unit]
Description=Zabbix Server
After=syslog.target network.target mariadb.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=zabbix
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server
ExecReload=/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server -R config_cache_reload
RemainAfterExit=yes
PIDFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

From the logs it looks like everything is fine and even in Reports -> System information.
However, any attempt of restarting the service results in systemctl blocking.

[mwildam]

I have solved the issue after reading carefully https://www.freedesktop.org/software...d.service.html and changed Type to "forking". My systemd configuration file, /etc/systemd/system/zabbix-server.service, now looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=Zabbix Server
After=syslog.target network.target mariadb.service

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=always
User=zabbix
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server
ExecReload=/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server -R config_cache_reload
RemainAfterExit=yes
PIDFile=/tmp/zabbix_server.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now it works.

When you prepare the file, don't forget afterwards:

sudo systemctl enable
sudo systemctl daemon-reload