Zimbra zmconfigd not starting/running
The Problem:
zmconfigd status would indicate that it is not running when viewing the services status on the admin console as well as output from zmcontrol status
The fix:
Ensure that the which command is installed. After that is completed remove a pid file. Then start the service.
# yum install which
# sudo su - zimbra
$ rm -rf /opt/zimbra/log/zmconfigd.pid
$ zmconfigdctl start
$ zmcontrol status
Why?
My suspicion can be found in the source code for zmconfigdctl:
NC=`which nc 2>/dev/null`; NC=${NC:-`which netcat 2>/dev/null`}
Obviously if both which and nc are missing, zimbra will fail. Why?
status=`echo STATUS | $NC -w 10 -i 1 localhost ${zmmtaconfig_listen_port} 2>/dev/null`
This is used to see if it’s running. Zimbra will notify you during install that netcat is required but does not complain about the which command. Even my manager complains that I build servers light on installed packages. Add this to the list of “problems-john-created-due-to-missing-dependencies.”
This service’s purpose is to monitor for specific configuration changes and restart necessary services in order for those new configurations to take place automatically
Now I know.
