Why does enabling a service in RHEL 6 does not enable any dependent services?

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Issue

  • When I enable a service using chkconfig and that service depends on other service, the dependent service is not enabled.

  • For example, the numad initscript contains the following LSB-style init stanza:

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: numad
# Required-Start: cgconfig
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: numad control
# Description:
### END INIT INFO

  • Why does service cgconfig remain disabled (and numad fails to start as a result) after running chkconfig numad on?

    # chkconfig --list | egrep cgconfig\|numad
cgconfig          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
numad             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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