OSE on Debian - installation troubleshooting

[William]

Greetings One and All

Currently evaluating both versions of zimbra - network edition on RHEL is looking good so far.

OSE on Debian is proving somewhat troublesome....

Server is:
o dual xeon c/w 2GB RAM
o debian stable
o 2.6.8-3-686-smp

Think we now have the box in the desired state - minimal install and pre-requisites loaded, but still no go with zimbra.

Zimbra install appears to complete. last actions ...
./install.sh -u
./install.sh

But ...

# zmcontrol status
Host XXXX.XXXXXXX.net
antispam Running
antivirus Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Stopped
tomcat is not running
mta Running
snmp Running
spell Running

Assistance with troubleshooting hints/docs much appreciated.

Thanks.

[robertl]

Whats in /opt/zimbra/log/zimbra.log? Try restarting Zimbra and then maybe grep for things like ERROR. Most likely if you tail the file right after Zimbra starts you'll get something about the failure.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by robertl

Whats in /opt/zimbra/log/zimbra.log?

If it's 4.5 that file is now called /opt/zimbra/log/mailbox.log

[jholder]

Run a netstat -anp

And look for anything odd

[William]

Many thanks chaps

Yes, the problem was indeed related to logging. There was a permissions issue with a log file - don't recall which one now.

Permissions altered and all is rosy