tags 373566 + confirmed
tags 373566 + pending
thanks
hi Michel,
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:59:27AM +0200, Michel Meyers wrote:
> Installing zabbix-server-mysql, which pulled in the frontend
> automatically, the frontend package got unpacked and set up before the actual
> server and started prompting me for MySQL database access configuration
> (which hadn't been defined yet).
yes, one solution to this problem is to move zabbix-frontend-php from
the Recommends to the Suggests, fixed in SVN.
> In addition to that, I fail to see how the user can know the
> MySQL password if he/she tells the server package to generate it randomly.
> (Apart from manually looking it up in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
> after the installation of course.)
well, this is somewhat tricky to solve. I think i could query an
existing dbconfig-common database within the postinst script, but im not
100% sure. Im going to have a look.
> dpkg-reconfigure zabbix-frontend-php doesn't seem to do anything either,
> I have to purge the package and reinstall it to be able to reenter the
> database information.
this is right, also fixed in SVN. Reconfiguration should work with the
next upload.
bye,
- michael
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