Can't find zmcontrol

[joel1943]

I have what appears to be a successful install of zimbra on ubuntu 6.06.
However, when I try to verify that all of the services are running I get a problem. The instructions say to su - zimbra. That rejects the admin password. zmcontrol status results in "command not found". Browse to https://zserver.test.com:7071 results in no connection.

Please help with ideas.

thanks

[mmorse]

Sudo issues?
(if your logged in as root doing "su - zimbra" it shouldn't ask for a pass)
Do you have any super-user capable access on this box?

[joel1943]

I am a linux newbie.

I created a user at os installation with a password. If that isn't the root password then I don't know what the root password is.

That password I created works for sudo.

The greater issues seems to be that the system can't find zmcontrol.

[mmorse]

Ok let's see how we can clarify this...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

[joel1943]

I did the install as sudo user.

When I command su or root I am asked for a paswword. I put in the only password i have ever entered into the system and I get a message:"Sorry, authenication failure".

[joel1943]

I have just discovered the Ubuntu does not give access to root user. Admin has to be done with sudo.

[joel1943]

So that brings me back to the problem that when I run
sudo zmcontrol start or zmcontrol status I get a message which says:
"zmcontrol: command not found.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[penguinknight]

Ubuntu does give access to the root user, if you choose to take it.
Linux is flexible and you will never be in a place where there is truly NOTHING you can do to stop what the OS is wanting to do. Don't get pushed around by your operating system!

To give the root user a password
sudo su
this will drop you into a root shell
passwd
this will prompt you to enter your new root password

Hence forth you can run:
su
and you can enter your new root password and have a root shell.

So to get to the zimbra user...

sudo su

-> you're now in a root shell

su - zimbra

-> you're now the zimbra user - it SHOULD NOT ask for a password because you are a super user (which means really cool). run all zimbra related commands from here.

zmcontrol start

[Nox]

An alternative for best practices if you do not want to give the root account the ability to log in, you can run the command:

sudo -u zimbra zmcontrol

Basically run as root running as zimbra execute zmcontrol all rolled into one statement. The only problem you may run into when performing a sudo is that sometimes your $PATH statement may not be executed properly, so to run the same command if your working directory is /opt/zimbra/bin/ :

sudo -u zimbra ./zmcontrol

I know this thread is really old, but I found this thread using google, and it helped me in my learning Linux and Zimbra, except I didn't want to enable login as root. So I found the answer and posted it. Don't kill me for bumping.