If your distro is using systemd then rc.local will not get executed by default. Enable rc-local.service : "systemctl enable rc-local.service". Regards, Prasad On 9 June 2018 at 18:18, Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All > > I have been working on a custom ISO with kickstart and a couple of post > installation scripts and would like to have the script run before the > login prompt. > > The custom ISO works; however, the scripts fails because some of the > services, e.g. mariadb does not start before the server installation > has been completed and rebooted; therefore, I have been putting the > scripts in /etc/profile.d/ and after logging in the scripts will > execute and upon completion of the script will be deleted from > /etc/profile.d/. > > DuckDuckGo suggested that I copy the script to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and > make it executable; however, I have tried that a few times and the > script simply does not execute. > > Below is an excerpt from the ks.cfg. > > > export SRCDIR="/run/install/repo" > export DSTDIR="/mnt/sysimage" > > # copy scripts to the destintion of the server > cp -v $SRCDIR/postinstall/script1.sh > $DSTDIR/etc/rc.d/rc.local/script1.sh > > # Make scripts executable > chmod +x $DSTDIR/etc/rc.d/rc.local.sh > > Since this is a ISO for a community project, don't think that tools > such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. will work here. > > Also, it is a one time execution; therefore, I did not consider using > systemd because the goal would be to have visibility while the script > is running just as I see after I login; however, just need the script > to be executed after the OS was installed and restarted and before the > login prompt. > > All suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >