Can't install

[Bruce]

Just wanted to rant. Looks like a good package, but as usual the author(s) are dependent upon some other packages that I can't get install or configured properly. Use a real database. I'm not going to learn MySql or that other thing just to run this package. Use a real scripting language. I'm not going to learn PHP just to run this package. I was scripting in Perl before anyone knew how to spell PHP. Perl's more mature and more secure.
Developers shouldn't use some complex combination of packages that noone else knows just because it makes life easier on them. We have to use the end result.

[cooper]

Your comments barely deserve a response, and i can see up until now they have been ignored. But, seeing as it was such flame bait, let me light my torch.

You dont need to know mysql or php to use zabbix. If you can read (the manual) and copy and paste text to your command line, then you can install zabbix. There is no (my)SQL or PHP knowledge needed to install or run zabbix.

And, oh yeah, what do you mean by "real" database. I hope you dont mean oracle, as support for it is scheuled. but since you didnt RTFM, you wouldnt know that. You probably mean MSSQL or Access maybe? You want to code a frontend this complex in PERL? Puh-lease. If PERL is so great for web app frontends where are they all? Not to mention this frontend in PERL would be a dog. Almost every content management system uses PHP, bulletin boards like this one. Which reminds me, how did you post your message, you dont know php. It must have taken you hours to figure out how to drive this message board. You're insecure, affraid of something you dont know (do you work in redmond?) and after one failed install you threw in the towel and blamed the devloper/database/scripting language/etc.

Please dont use zabbix. Dont use this board. This user community is better off with out you.

[Bruce]

But I did RTFM, and you're right it is a FM - just enough to say a manual was written. So why can't I get the MySQL db built?

And if it is as easy as "copy and paste text to your command line", why isn't there a setup script?

Navigating a bb has nothing to do with using PHP. I can and have developed similar systems in Perl. It probably never took off since most developers can't grasp things such as regex...

I drive large systems, not dinky Linux web servers. I have helped build a blade system that is in the top 20 fastest computers.

I'll stay with Nagios even though its difficult to configure. It too has a PHP configuration tool which I no longer use since it likes to corrupt files.

Don't worry, this is the last time I will ever log into this site... Ta-ta

[riegersteve]

re: cant install

what os are you running, what version of mysql are we trying to install