/run/zabbix not created on CentOS 7.3

[danoreilly]

The /run/zabbix directory for zabbix-agent isn't created properly on CentOS 7.3:

# systemctl start zabbix-agent
Job for zabbix-agent.service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded. See "systemctl status zabbix-agent.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
# cat systemctl status zabbix-agent.service
cat: systemctl: No such file or directory
cat: status: No such file or directory
cat: zabbix-agent.service: No such file or directory

It happens on most of our 7.3 systems. Our version of Zabbix is 3.2.2. I've seen this was a known problem a year or two ago, but it seems to have come back.

[SBO]

Why do you use cat ?
The proper command is
systemctl status zabbix-agent.service
not
cat systemctl status zabbix-agent.service

That's why you have these messages..

[kloczek]

Looks like zabbix-agent.service is incomplete and lines like below are missing in this file:

# Run ExecStartPre with root-permissions
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/zabbix
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod 775 /var/run/zabbix
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chgrp zabbix /var/run/zabbix
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c $CONFFILE
PIDFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid

[danoreilly]

It's called a "typo"

Why do you use cat ?
The proper command is
systemctl status zabbix-agent.service
not
cat systemctl status zabbix-agent.service

That's why you have these messages..

It's called a typo. I didn't really type that command the way it appears.

[SBO]

Sorry but I had to be sure, I see so many weird things around here sometimes..