On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 00:40 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > 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 > Hi Martin, here's what I see:
sudo systemctl status dnsmasq [sudo] password for chris: ● dnsmasq.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) chris@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory chris@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl status dnsmasq ● dnsmasq.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) I then installed dnsmasq (apparently it wasn't installed) Results are here - https://pastebin.com/MRR4NCMp -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 19:25:14 up 1 day, 3:04, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.26, 0.19 Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, kernel 4.10.0-35-generic
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