[chef] Re: starting service

[Michael Murphy < >]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:30 PM,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> I have this error
>
> [Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:24:01 -0700] ERROR:
> Chef::Exceptions::UnsupportedAction: service[portmap] (apol_db::nfs line 27)
> had an error: #<Chef::Provider::Service::Init:0x2b0d03852420> does not
> support :enable
>
> my line 27 is
>
>
> service "portmap" do
> action [ :enable, :start ]
> end
>
>
> what am I missing?

What's your os? You appear to be ending up trying to use the default
provider for service, which is just "Init".

Looking here:
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/provider/service/init.rb

It appears that the init provider doesn't do ":enable". If the package
has already deposited your start script in /etc/init.d (or wheverver)
you may may be able to safely just :start it without the :enable.

Mike