Installing rsaservmgr scripts [exec] error reading information on service rsaservmgr error when installing RSA Web Tier on Linux
2 months ago
Originally Published: 2019-06-25
Article Number
000040933
Applies To
RSA Product Set: SecurID
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager Web Tier
RSA Version/Condition: 8.4.0
Issue
When trying to install the RSA Web TIer server on Linux, the following error is observed and the install fails.
Installing rsaservmgr scripts 
[exec] error reading information on service rsaservmgr: Invalid argument 
Exception in thread "main" : exec returned: 1
Cause
The root cause is that the rsaservmgr startup script was left behind under /etc/init.d and cannot be removed by the installer.
Resolution
To correct this issue run the following commands as root:
rm -rf /opt/RSA*
rm -rf /etc/init.d/rsa*