Init script for Gentoo platform

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Hello all

I run our Zabbix on a Gentoo 2007.0 installation. When I upgraded to 1.4.2, I adapted the init script provided with the source. After that, I didn't get any SMS. I reverted to the init script from the Portage for the version 1.1.7 and SMS has been working again.

I can't explain, why this happened. I found out, that the smsclient 2.0.9 I used, couldn't create the lock file in "/var/lock/sms" for the modem when started with the init script from the ZABBIX sources. With the init script from the Gentoo package for 1.1.7 it works fine. In both cases, the ZABBIX process has been running as the user "zabbix".

Maybe this helps if someone else encounter the same problem.

Andreas

[Alexei]

Perhaps different init scripts start different versions of ZABBIX server. Note that starting from 1.4.2 all binaries are installed into sbin (not bin) by default.

[Andreas Bollhalder]

I did change the path to the correct server binary (1.4.2 in sbin). It seems, that there has been something wrong with the environment for the user zabbix when I used the init script from the sources. The server process itself did run fine, I got only the wiered behavior when executing the script for sending SMSs (couldn't create lock file for the modem, even the user zabbix could run the script by hand).

Andreas