named: unrecognized service?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jan 8 07:00:08 UTC 2008
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:46:03 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:46:51 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Something a bit strange here (this is F8 with all updates):
>>>>
>>>> /sbin/service named status
>>>> named: unrecognized service
>>>>
>>>> sudo /sbin/chkconfig named --list
>>>> named 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
>>> Don't stop there yet. Does /etc/init.d/named exist? Is the
>> Oh, Michael Michael
>>
>> chkconfig doesn't find it if it doesn't exist.
>
> Without testing (or fetching and reading the source as it is a binary not
> a script) I was unable to tell when and how it examines the files and
> symlinks and to what extend it strictly needs a chkconfig-specific header
> in the initscript. And even when testing with a non-existant "blah"
> service, maybe chkconfig would have given different results only when
> finding run-level symlinks.
>
> I wanted Neal to dig a little deeper and find the problem himself. My
> small set of questions lead to enough details to locate the problem.
That's fine, and I try to do that too, but you did make an assumption
(that he wasn't root) without any evidence to support it.
Me, I ran chkconfig to see what it did.
>
>
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Cheers
John
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