# managing Gentoo services

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-gentoo-services/17630>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 26, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-gentoo-services/17630 "2015-02-26T21:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phil\_Barron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@Phil\_Barron](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Phil_Barron)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-gentoo-services/17630/1 "2015-02-26T21:08:06Z")

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Hi,

I have a playbook that enables the vixie-cron service on Gentoo

However it fails to start the service using init scripts. Is there a different way of managing services on Gentoo systems?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-gentoo-services/17630/2 "2015-03-04T14:59:48Z")

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I just tried 1.8.4 and current development, this works for me on Gentoo