On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 11:15 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 19:32 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > > 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) > > > Yes, that agrees with systemd not knowing about dnsmasq. > > > > > I then installed dnsmasq (apparently it wasn't installed) > > > I don't know why you'd want to do that since you should be running > named instead of dnsmasq. > I was tired and getting po'd at the whole mess. I installed via apt then removed via apt and also ran apt purge.
> Delete the version you just installed via the apt package manager and > do a search and destroy mission to get rid of both the other copy of > it > and the associated configuration. > > Running "updatedb; locate dnsmasq" is probably the fastest way of > finding it and its associated files. Anything with a similar name in > /etc/init.d is probably its launcher script, so that can go too. If > you > have an /etc/rc.local file, check its contents because its run as > part > of the sysVinit process. It shouldn't have anything about dnsmasq in > it > but you never know... > From the locate command I found these - https://pastebin.com/ECjZGX1M I'm not sure what to do with those that are associated with /snap/core. There's nothing in /etc/init.d for dnsmasq. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 08:07:59 up 11:20, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08 Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, kernel 4.10.0-35-generic
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