zerotier-cli on Ubuntu 14.04: missing port and zerotier-one.port not found in /var/lib/zerotier-one

[surfnet-niels]

After installing zerotier-one_1.0.3_amd64.deb on ubuntu 14.04 LTS starting the cli client yields:

niels@M0ped:~$ zerotier-cli zerotier-cli: missing port and zerotier-one.port not found in /var/lib/zerotier-one

contents of /var/lib/zerotier show: niels@M0ped:/var/lib/zerotier-one$ ls -l total 612 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2461 jun 3 02:01 uninstall.sh drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jul 22 23:26 updates.d -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 618304 jun 4 03:02 zerotier-one

Running cli client with the port parameter return expected output: niels@M0ped:/var/lib/zerotier-one$ zerotier-cli -p auto ZeroTier One version 1.0.3 (c)2011-2015 ZeroTier, Inc. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3

Usage: zerotier-cli [-switches] <command/path> []

Available switches: -h - Display this help -v - Show version -j - Display full raw JSON output -D - ZeroTier home path for parameter auto-detect -p - HTTP port (default: auto) -T - Authentication token (default: auto)

Available commands: info - Display status info listpeers - List all peers listnetworks - List all networks join - Join a network leave - Leave a network

[adamierymenko]

The service probably isn't started. The package usually won't do that by default. Type "sudo service zerotier-one start" (I think).

[surfnet-niels]

thx, that solved the issue. Might be good to add this to the docs somewhere.

[mikebutash]

Same issue here, second the mention of adding to linux startup docs (ubuntu here), or have your package start the service on install. Most packages tend to start if a service anyways, didn't expect to have to start this manually on install either, and error was cryptic to throw wtf's to start googling.

[lpflhh]

zerotier-one -d