Lab 4.1

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• coop Posts: 303

  September 2015

  I ran a VM on vmware for Ubuntu 14.04 and repeated exactly all the steps in the
  lab and it all worked perfectly. and the lock file existed. I would suggest you
  step back through things. In particular make sure:
  
  1) you have sysvinit-utils and chkconfig packages installed.
  
  2) make sure you created /etc/default/fake_service *AND* modified fake_service to
  point to it instead of /etc/sysconfig
  
  3) make sure you do all the starting/stopping as root (sudo)
  
  Other than that I don't really know.

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• munzali Posts: 3

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  thanks, wasn't able to install chkconfig program (somthing about the package no longer being available) but i made some modifications to the fake_service script
  (removed the parts of it that were trying to access /var/lock which isn't present in my file system(...for whatever reason) ) and used the invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d commands instead of chkconfig.
  
  
  NEW PROBLEM WITH LAB 4.2
  
  systemctl command not found on my system!

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• coop Posts: 303

  October 2015

  You don't say what distro and version you are running. If you are running any ubuntu earlier than 15.04 you will not have systemctl (or any systemd stuff). I think it is mentioned in the course (but I'm not sure) that chkconfig is not availaible on Ubuntu 14.04. This stuff is very distro and version dependent and you just have to figure it out. We can't give you every exact detail on each one. Fortunately, you were sharp enough to work it out for your situation!

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• munzali Posts: 3

  October 2015

  Ahh yes! That was mentioned.
  Thanks.
  
  I'm using ubuntu 14.04

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• jocampo Posts: 1

  December 2015

  Hi!!
  In Ubuntu Server 14.04, I have create the /var/lock/subsys or /run/lock/subsys directory (/var/lock is a symbolic link to /run/lock) and the service worked fine.

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• vam Posts: 6

  December 2015 edited December 2015

  had same problem with script on Ubuntu 14.04
  There is no chkconig package on 14.04 and I had sysvinit-utils installed.
  

  $ sudo service fake_service start
  Running fake_service in start mode...
  touch: cannot touch ‘/var/lock/subsys/fake_service’: No such file or directory
  

  
  service started after

  $ sudo mkdir /var/lock/subsys
  

  
  Not sure if subsys directory would not be gone after reboot.
  

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• jesuso Posts: 2

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  I was able to stop/start the fake_service, but I was not able to add it with chkconfig. Did you have same issue? what am I doing wrong? Note: As you can see using CentOS7 and VirtualBox 

  [[email protected] ~]$ sudo chkconfig --add fake_service
  
  service fake_service does not support chkconfig
  
  [[email protected] ~]$ sudo systemctl enable fake_service
  
  fake_service.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig.
  
  Executing /sbin/chkconfig fake_service on
  
  service fake_service does not support chkconfig
  
  [[email protected] ~]$ /sbin/chkconfig fake_service on
  
  service fake_service does not support chkconfig
  
  [[email protected] ~]$

   

   

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• luisviveropena Posts: 323

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Hi Jesuso,

  It worked here at once:

  
  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Menlo; color: #ededed; background-color: #000000}
  p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Menlo; color: #ededed; background-color: #000000; min-height: 16.0px}
  span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures}
  
  

  [[email protected] default]# chkconfig --list fake_service 

   

  Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native

        systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native

        systemd configuration.

   

        If you want to list systemd services use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

        To see services enabled on particular target use

        'systemctl list-dependencies [target]'.

   

  service fake_service supports chkconfig, but is not referenced in any runlevel (run 'chkconfig --add fake_service')

  [[email protected] default]# chkconfig --add fake_service 

  [[email protected] default]# 

  [[email protected] default]# cat /etc/redhat-release 

  CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) 

  [[email protected] default]# 

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