zabbix_agent won't start if /var/log/zabbix-agent doesn't exist

[MarkG]

As per the subject, if /var/log/zabbix-agent doesn't exist, then the zabbix-agent won't start. The init.d script currently creates /var/run/zabbix-agent if it doesn't exist, and should also create /var/log/zabbix-agent.

Normally this isn't a problem when you have a persistent /var/log directory, but I'm mounting /var/log as tmpfs since I'm running on an SSD, so the /var/log/* directories vanish after a reboot.

Here''s the relevant chunk of my hacked init.d script:

DIR=/var/run/zabbix-agent
LOGDIR=/var/log/zabbix-agent
PID=$DIR/$NAME.pid

if test ! -d "$DIR"; then
        mkdir "$DIR"
        chown -R zabbix:zabbix "$DIR"
fi

if test ! -d "$LOGDIR"; then
        mkdir "$LOGDIR"
        chown -R zabbix:zabbix "$LOGDIR"
fi

Ideally that would probably be a directory-creating proc rather than duplicated code. I'm guessing that the zabbix-server has the same problem.

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