fping on Suse 10.3 not working / Zabbix 1.4.2

[RohrbaGe]

Hello,

I have some problems to get the fping working on Suse 10.3
As I have some experience with zabbix on Suse 9.3,10.1 and 10.2 I think I have done
the right steps.
1) user and group zabbix are created, user zabbix is member of group zabbix
2) fping is installed under /usr/sbin/fping ( default)
3) zabbix_server.conf is pointing for fping in the path /usr/sbin/fping

4) I set the rights as described in the manual
-rws--s--- 1 root zabbix 26620 Sep 22 00:06 fping

5) If I run su -zabbix and try to run fping -C 5 -q 12.2.2.2: command not found
If I run /usr/sbin/fping -C 5 -q 12.2.2.2 it works fine.

I guess, that the server process will have the same problem and will not find the fping command.

Has someone a similiar effect and already a soloution.

Where do I have to search?

Regards

Gerald


Forgot that, after a reboot everything works fine.
Still I do not understand, why it does not work before.

[jeenam]

dur

Try this:

su - zabbix
echo $PATH

Does the $PATH variable include the path to 'fping'? It's unlikely it does since regular user accounts do not include *sbin in their path. Either create a link to fping in /usr/bin/ (e.g. ln -s /usr/sbin/fping /usr/bin/fping) or edit the /home/zabbix/.bashrc file to include:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin

Creating a link is safer as regular user accounts should not have super user bin (/sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin) directories in their path as it is a security risk.