power failure and zabbix_server.pid

[par]

Recently i've got a power failure and my zabbix server went down. When power came up, my server booted, but could not start zabbix_server because of zabbix_server.pid file, so i was not informed about any of the problems in the network via sms.


How do you deal with that?

[akox]

solution

Recently i've got a power failure and my zabbix server went down. When power came up, my server booted, but could not start zabbix_server because of zabbix_server.pid file, so i was not informed about any of the problems in the network via sms.


How do you deal with that?

Change the zabbix_server startup script in /etc/init.d to remove the pid file in case you start the zabbix server but the process described in the pid file doesn't exist.
Check the : if /sbin/pidof ....... line.

start() {
if /sbin/pidof $prog > /dev/null ; then : ; else rm -f $pidfile >/dev/null; fi
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
daemon $zabbix_server
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ]
return $RETVAL
}