On 2023-09-01 at 16:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 08:32:40PM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> I don't think /etc/rc.local is executed by default on modern Debian >> systems. Have you checked to make sure that rc-local.service is >> enabled and actually gets started during boot? Is there anything >> relevant in the logs for that? Is /etc/rc.local set as executable? > > The rc-local.service is enabled by default. It will execute /etc/rc.local > if it exists and is executable. > > The Debian installer used to create a stub /etc/rc.local file which had > a correct shell script shebang, and the necessary permissions. This is > longer created during installation, so the user would need to create > it themselves, if they want to have it. They'd also have to know enough > to put a correct shebang on it, and to do chmod +x. That's not a huge > barrier to entry, but it's just enough to confuse some people.
It's actually still available, although I expect you're right that in a
default configuration it won't be installed during Debian installation:
$ dlocate /etc/rc.local
initscripts: /etc/rc.local
$ apt-cache policy initscripts
initscripts:
Installed: 3.07-1
Candidate: 3.07-1
Version table:
*** 3.07-1 900
900 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
900 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
if test -d /etc/boot.d ; then
run-parts /etc/boot.d
fi
This is in an environment that's running sysvinit, not systemd;
'sysvinit-core' currently depends on the 'initscripts' package. I'm not
in a position to tell whether there would be issues trying to install
'initscripts' in a systemd environment, but I just offhand wouldn't
particularly expect there to be.
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