Problem starting Zabbix server

Question

When trying to start the Zabbix server, I get the following error:

Starting zabbix_server: /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server [29360]: Cannot open [/tmp/zabbix_server.log] [Permission denied] [FAILED]

In My zabbix_server.log file:

18959:20100129:202911.592 [Z3001] Connection to database 'zabbix' failed: [104\ 5] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

How do I change it so that it tries to connect with the correct user / password? (I have set a password for my root account, so it can't connect to the database.)

Solution

Alright, you have two mistakes here : The first one : the log have to be in /var/log (well or somewhere else but not into /tmp) :

edit the file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf and look for this entry :

# Name of log file
# If not set, syslog is used

LogFile=/var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix_server.log

And check you have the same error. For the database access, you can launch :

dpkg-reconfigure zabbix-server

so you will be able to set a new password. OR, edit the file : /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf again, at the end of the file, you will see :

# Database user

DBUser=zabbix

# Database password
# Comment this line if no password used

DBPassword=foo

# Connect to MySQL using Unix socket?

#DBSocket=/tmp/mysql.sock

Note that you will also have to edit the file /etc/zabbix/dbconfig.php :

$DB["TYPE"]      = "mysql";
$DB["SERVER"]    = "localhost";
$DB["PORT"]      = "0";
$DB["DATABASE"]  = "zabbix";
$DB["USER"]      = "zabbix";
$DB["PASSWORD"]  = "foo";
$ZBX_SERVER      = "127.0.0.1";
$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = "10051";

so the password match.

Comments

[Chetan]

But it doesn't have any option to configure the zabbix server itself...

[Jenny D]

I don't see how that will help with the problem that zabbix can't open its log file.