do-agent does not start on CentOS v7

[sdwru]

To Reproduce

Install the latest do-agent from yum repository. Run journalctl -f to watch systemd logging in real time. From another shell run systemctl restart do-agent

You will see the following error in the journalctl shell:

Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/digitalocean/bin/do-agent --syslog: Permission denied

To Fix

chmod 755 /opt/digitalocean
chmod 755 /opt/digitalocean/bin

Run systemctl restart do-agent again and it should work now

[bsnyder788]

Hi @sdwru, I just tried re-producing this with a CentOS v7 droplet and was unable too. Are you using the actual DO image for this distro or a custom image?

[sdwru]

Hello,

This may have been due to a change to the RPM, which used to set the file and folder permissions to user:nobody, group:do-agent, and permissions 750. Or perhaps the droplet-agent did that? When the RPM was updated it appears it did not update the previous file and folder permissions on my server. After I completely uninstalled do-agent and droplet-agent and removed the /opt/digitalocean folder and tried re-installed both RPMs individually they both set the permissions correctly.

So it seems to be working now for new installs. However, I think it would still be advisable to have the RPM update folder/file permissions on updates, for anyone who may still be running older versions of the RPM and have not updated yet.

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[bsnyder788]

still valid

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[bsnyder788]

still valid