Package Numad daemon not working in Devuan

GermanAizek · 2025-11-01 03:16:36

Numad application is not adapted for initialization systems other than systemd. Therefore, such a utility for HPC and data centers does not start as a daemon.
This utility works in all distributions, and it is enabled by default in Red Hat products.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/numad

devuan@devuan:~$ sudo service numad start
grep: /etc/init.d/numad: No such file or directory
numad: unrecognized service
devuan@devuan:~$ sudo service numad status
grep: /etc/init.d/numad: No such file or directory
numad: unrecognized service
devuan@devuan:~$ numad 
Sat Nov  1 06:00:44 2025: Cannot open numad log file (errno: 13) -- using stderr
Sat Nov  1 06:00:44 2025: Cannot open numad.pid file
devuan@devuan:~$ sudo rc-update add numad default
 * rc-update: service `numad' does not exist
devuan@devuan:~$ sudo update-rc.d numad defaults
update-rc.d: error: initscript does not exist: /etc/init.d/numad

Last edited by GermanAizek (2025-11-01 03:17:14)

GermanAizek · 2025-11-01 03:22:14

Due to such a problem when working on servers, it is very difficult to abandon debian in order to switch to devuan.
Help if there is anyone who can adapt for SysVinit and OpenRC and add an fix to the official Devuan repos.

Last edited by GermanAizek (2025-11-01 03:22:35)