Bug 957658

Summary:	Permissions are wrong on /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Trever Adams <trever>
Component:	zabbix	Assignee:	Dan Horák <dan>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	brett.lentz, dan, nelsonab, volker27
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Description Trever Adams 2013-04-29 08:21:06 UTC

Description of problem:
zabbix_server [867]: cannot create PID file [/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid]: [13] Permission denied

zabbix_agent can access the file. zabbix_server is setup to run as zabbixsrv, which most of the configuration files are setup for, this causes the above error.

drwxr-xr-x.  2 zabbix   zabbix     60 Apr 29 02:17 zabbix


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
zabbix-2.0.5-1.fc18.x86_64
zabbix-agent-2.0.5-1.fc18.x86_64
zabbix-server-2.0.5-1.fc18.x86_64
zabbix-server-pgsql-2.0.5-1.fc18.x86_64
zabbix-web-2.0.5-1.fc18.noarch
zabbix-web-pgsql-2.0.5-1.fc18.noarch

Comment 1 Trever Adams 2013-05-03 04:26:20 UTC

Ok, I think I have figured out more of what is going on.

It doesn't seem to be failing to start because of the log or pid permission problem.

It is because /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-server-pgsql.service

has the following line:
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_server

It should be either the following, or zabbix-server-pgsql should be setting up a symlink:

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_server_pgsql

The permissions are still messed up. tmpfiles.d doesn't seem to be able to do beyond basic owner,group,world modes so I cannot suggest a forced adding of a posix user for zabbixsrv.

Any reason for both zabbix and zabbixsrv users? If so, then maybe they should have different run and log directories.

Comment 2 Trever Adams 2013-05-03 04:30:41 UTC

Sorry, I take that back about the symlink. I removed the zabbix-server and zabbix-server-pgsql packages, reinstalled, the symlinks are right. It is the permissions.

It appears that if you set the owner to zabbixsrv and group to zabbix for the log and run directory, things work.

Comment 3 Volker Fröhlich 2013-05-07 15:48:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 904041 ***