Re: What the heck is a rc.local stop job?

[Doug H.]

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 09:44 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I just rebooted my fedora 27 partition to get new kernel
> running, and I had to hit the reset button because it
> stuck here forever:
>
> A stop job is running for /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
>
> There is no bloody rc.local script that runs on shutdown,
> it exists for running stuff at boot. What has systemd
> done now and how do I make it stop?

Some good info at:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5497

So you likely have a result with "running" when doing:

systemctl status rc-local

And they suggest:

The only way to start a daemon in rc.local is by mean of "at -f
<commandfile_that_includes_daemon> now", as atd runs in a separate
cgroup thus rc.local gets no running PIDs in their group