iscsid command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

iscsid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iscsid: command not found

Solutions to iscsid: command not found

How To Fix iscsid: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iscsid is provided by open-iscsi package.

open-iscsi is:

The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.

Open-iSCSI is partitioned into user and kernel parts.

The kernel portion of Open-iSCSI is a from-scratch code licensed under GPL. The kernel part implements iSCSI data path (that is, iSCSI Read and iSCSI Write), and consists of three loadable modules: scsi_transport_iscsi.ko, libiscsi.ko and iscsi_tcp.ko.

User space contains the entire control plane: configuration manager, iSCSI Discovery, Login and Logout processing, connection-level error processing, Nop-In and Nop-Out handling, and (in the future:) Text processing, iSNS, SLP, Radius, etc.

The user space Open-iSCSI consists of a daemon process called iscsid, and a management utility iscsiadm.

This package includes a daemon, iscsid, and a management utility, iscsiadm.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install open-iscsi

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install open-iscsi.

sudo apt -y install open-iscsi

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install open-iscsi

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix iscsid command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.