On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:28:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2019 08:57:26 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 12:58:22AM -0700, didier.gau...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > Is your system a Systemd one (by default in Debian), you have to > > > enable rc.local: > > > https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-server/how-to-enable-etcrc-local-wit > > >h-systemd > > > > You don't have to enable the rc-local service in Debian. It's already > > enabled. You can verify this with systemctl status rc-local. > > > > All you have to do are two steps: > > > > 1) Make sure /etc/rc.local begins with a valid shebang. > > 2) Make sure /etc/rc.local has execute permissions. > > How long has this been true, Greg? I ask because thats the first place > I've tried to put things I needed running because it should be last in > the init sequence. And I don't recall it ever working since LCNC > switched to wheezy from ubuntu 8 something. Perhaps this is why?
In wheezy-and-earlier, /etc/rc.local was supported by sysv-rc packages. In jessie-and-later, /etc/rc.local is supported by the rc-local.service in systemd. Systems *installed* at jessie or earlier also got a default /etc/rc.local file with a crapload of comments in it, a "#!/bin/sh -e" shebang which is definitely not what I would recommend, and an "exit 0" at the end, just to make sure newbies have multiple traps to fall in, like appending a command to the end of the file and then wondering why it doesn't run. Systems installed at stretch or later do not have a default /etc/rc.local file, so one must be created by hand, following the two rules I gave.
