rc.local not loaded on boot

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 26 Mar 2012 at 10:00, Aaron Konstam wrote:

Subject:        	Re: rc.local not loaded on boot
From:           	Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
To:             	users at lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent:      	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:04 -0500
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> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:18 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: 
> > On 26 Mar 2012 at 1:57, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > 
> > Date sent:      	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:57:58 +0800
> > From:           	Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
> > To:             	Community support for Fedora users 
> > <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject:        	Re: rc.local not loaded on boot
> > Send reply to:  	Community support for Fedora users 
> > <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > > On 03/26/2012 01:34 AM, David G. Miller wrote:
> > > > You need to enable the service through systemctl.  Here's a long
> > > > discussion that looks at quite a few of the things that can
> > > > affect getting rc.local functional.
> > > >  Quite a bit more to it than just putting a script there:
> > > 
> > > Well....
> > > 
> > > I did nothing else other than create a /etc/rc.d/rc.local ...
> > > 
> > > [egreshko at f16-1 rc.d]$ ll
> > > total 36
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 init.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc0.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc1.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc2.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc3.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc4.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc5.d
> > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar  8 01:44 rc6.d
> > > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   39 Mar 25 23:36 rc.local
> > > 
> > > with
> > > 
> > > #!/bin/sh -e
> > > 
> > > #exit 0
> > > 
> > > touch /tmp/XXXX
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And it on reboot a file with name XXXX was in /tmp
> > > 
> > > [egreshko at f16-1 rc.d]$ ll /tmp/XXXX
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Mar 25 23:37 /tmp/XXXX
> > 
> > what does 
> > systemctl status rc-local.service shows?
> > try
> > systemctl enable rc-local.service show?
> 
> both the above statements fail with and error messagwe : No such file
> or directory.

On one of my machines that it works just fine on.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local file

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
freshclam -c 2 -d


systemctl status rc-local.service


rc-local.service - /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; 
static)
	  Active: active (running) since Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:50:06 
+1000; 2min 52s ago
	 Process: 4136 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/rc.local start 
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	Main PID: 4139 (freshclam)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rc-local.service
		  └ 4139 freshclam -c 2 -d


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