Issue Installing initscripts and chkconfig on Azure Linux VM

Question

We have created a Linux virtual machine on Microsoft Azure and are planning to install our product on it. During the installation process, we encountered an issue and would appreciate your assistance.

Before installing our product, we need to install the initscripts package and its dependency chkconfig. However, when executing the yum install initscripts command, the system indicates that initscripts was installed successfully, but chkconfig failed to install. The error message is: /etc/init.d;673d8b5a: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system.

Upon inspection, we found that the /etc/init.d directory contains two files: AzureNetworkWatcherAgent and azuremonitoragent. We would like to understand the purpose of these files and seek your advice on resolving this installation conflict.

Answer 1

Hi He, Erchuang/何 二创,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.

The two files you found in /etc/init.d are integral to Azure's monitoring and diagnostics services. AzureNetworkWatcherAgent file is part of Azure's Network Watcher service, which helps monitor and diagnose network issues in your Azure virtual machine. azuremonitoragent file is related to the Azure Monitor Agent, which collects telemetry data from your VM, including performance metrics and log data. For more information, please refer to below docs:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/azure-monitor-agent-overview

Based on the error details you shared, I have shared troubleshooting steps that I felt will help resolve the issue you reported. Then Verify Installation: Check if the chkconfig package is installed correctly and ensure that the services are running as expected.

If you still find any difficulties, please let me know I would like to work closer on this issue.

Thank you.