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  1. ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
  2. ZBX-14363

The Zabbix Proxy Debian deb package's zabbix_proxy.conf file doesn't use a default Include=

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    • 3.4.9, 4.0.0alpha6
    • Installation (I), Packages (C), Proxy (P)
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    • All Debian Operating Systems which use the offical repo.zabbix.com

      I'm a huge fan of "the Debian way" (https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian)

      Part of that is imho that you should have the option to not modify the default config files of any package, and rely instead on a default include. This has the precious advantage that you may let the original package maintainer keep the config file as he desires and keep meaningful changes for the future; in example new default values for a major release 3.4->4.0

      To make practical examples: There are three common Debian packages which do exactly this: MySQL or MariaDB, Dovecot (the popular IMAP Server) and the Zabbix Agent from repo.zabbix.com !

      MariaDB:

       

      /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf
# Import all .cnf files from configuration directory
!includedir /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/

      Dovecot:

       

       

      /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Most of the actual configuration gets included below. The filenames are
# first sorted by their ASCII value and parsed in that order. The 00-prefixes
# in filenames are intended to make it easier to understand the ordering.
!include conf.d/*.conf

      Zabbix Agent:

       

       

      /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
### Option: Include
#	You may include individual files or all files in a directory in the configuration file.
#	Installing Zabbix will create include directory in /usr/local/etc, unless modified during the compile time.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
# Include=

Include=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/*.conf

# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.userparams.conf
# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/
# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/*.conf

      And to compare those three examples with the zabbix_proxy.conf from Zabbix 4.0 alpha6:

       

       

      /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf
### Option: Include
#	You may include individual files or all files in a directory in the configuration file.
#	Installing Zabbix will create include directory in /usr/local/etc, unless modified during the compile time.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
# Include=

# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_proxy.general.conf
# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_proxy.conf.d/
# Include=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_proxy.conf.d/*.conf

       

      As you see, there is no way to write your own Zabbix Proxy conf files, without editing the original file. This annoys me, cause Debian will ask me if I want to keep my modified zabbix_proxy.conf or overwrite it with the maintainer's version everytime there are significant changes. 

      So please add a default include like:

      Include=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.d/*.conf

      to your repo.zabbix.com deb files

      tl;dr
      In comparison to the Zabbix Agent deb files, the Zabbix Proxy deb package lacks a default include for additional conf files. 

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            starko Marco Hofmann
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