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Unit not found. trying to start firewall

Posted on November 22, 2017

I am using CentOS following these instructions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/additional-recommended-steps-for-new-centos-7-servers on a new droplet. Any idea what’s wrong?

$ **sudo systemctl start firewalld**
[sudo] password for xxx:
Failed to start firewalld.service: Unit not found.
$ 


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This question was answered by @wyattbiker:

nvm. I had to first: sudo yum install firewalld

The tutorial makes no mention of it.

Thanks!

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