On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 16:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > > Thanks Martin, here's what I get, it appears to not be running. > > sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq > [sudo] password for chris: > Failed to stop dnsmasq.service: Unit dnsmasq.service not loaded. > OK, that makes sense > sudo systemctl disable dnsmasq > Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory > That's interesting: I've never seen that before:
Here's what I see of I enable dnsmasq, check its status, disable it and check status again: $ sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi- user.target.wants/dnsmasq.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service. $ sudo systemctl status dnsmasq ● dnsmasq.service - DNS caching server. Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) $ sudo systemctl disable dnsmasq Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dnsmasq.service. $ sudo systemctl status dnsmasq ● dnsmasq.service - DNS caching server. Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) This is a Fedora 25 system which I use, amongst other things, as my SA and test system. My live Postfix and SA are on another system which runs named. I don't use dnsmasq at all but it turns out to be part of the standard software installed by F25. It would be interesting to know what 'systemctl status' shows on your system, though its quite possible it looks similar to what 'systemctl disable' showed. I can only guess that your system is a transitional systemd setup, i.e. systemctl is used for service management but some services (dnsmasq for one) are still running under the old systemV init scripts. Fedora installations used to work that way for some services, but that was a few versions ago (F21 or 22 at the latest). Martin
