Hi,
I have the logger running now. What I did was a bit ugly, but looks as if it did the trick. In case anyone needs this info ..
the logger mysql wasn't installing completely, the bare bones were there but no mysql tables or logger tables
so it wasn't a case of a corrupt db, the install was erroring out with errors about (among other things) a file not found ( /opt/zimbra/mysql-standard-5.0.51a-pc-linux-gnu-i686-glibc23/bin/my_print_defaults )
the filename was one of a number of defaults in /opt/zimbra/logger/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db all of which refer to a location higher up the zimbra tree, the logger mysql is in /opt/zimbra/logger/mysql
I substituted all these default path references for the logger mysql path, and ran zmloggerinit like that
seems to have worked, the logger is running, mysql accepts the zimbra user password from zmlocalconfig, the logger database is there, so I'm hoping that the edit allowed the install to conclude successfully
Code:
[zimbra@smtp bin]$ zmcontrol status
Host smtp.mydomain.com
antispam Running
antivirus Running
logger Running
mta Running
snmp Running
stats Running
Sean