3.6. Gears Not Idling

The oddjob daemon must be running on node hosts for gear idling to work correctly. Error messages for gear idling issues are logged in the /var/log/httpd/error_log file on the node host. The following error message, from the error-log file, shows that the oddjob daemon is not running.

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.redhat.oddjob_openshift was not provided by any .service files

Use the following commands to start the oddjob daemon, and enable it to start at boot:

# service oddjobd start
# chkconfig oddjobd on