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service zabbix-server (and zabbix-agent) fails starting (cannot run as root!)

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From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu>
Cc: 37631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37631: service zabbix-server (and zabbix-agent) fails starting (cannot run as root!)
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 18:04:27 +0200

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Hello Giovanni,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. okt. 5., Szo,
14:51):

> Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu> writes:
>
> > executive summary: do we really need to start zabbix_server in
> > foreground mode?
>
> executive answer: I don't know **but** this is not the cause of my issue
> :)
>
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> [...]
>
> >            (service zabbix-server-service-type
> >                   (zabbix-server-configuration
> >                    (include-files
> '("/root/secrets/zabbix-server-dbpass"))
> >                    (log-type "file")))
>
> ouch!... looking at the console (it's a remote VM so I usually connect
> via ssh only, but today I also connected via SPICE):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> zabbix_server [1942]: /root/secrets/zabbix-server-dbpass: [13] Permission
> denied
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> unfortunately shepherd did not catch this error (due to foreground
> mode?) in syslog :-(
>
> I just had to adjust the permissions to allow zabbix (I allowed the
> zabbix group to traverse /root/secrets and read the file) to read the
> included file
>
> this now works with both zabbix 4.2.0 and zabbix 4.2.7
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks! Gio'
>
> --
> Giovanni Biscuolo
>
> Xelera IT Infrastructures
>
>
>
> Can we consider this resolved then?

Best regards,
g_bor
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