[CentOS] Run as root on reboot

Thu Oct 29 00:12:57 UTC 2020
John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:56:53PM -0700, david wrote:
> Alas, I think rc.local has become irrelevant with systemd, which is most
> Linux distros is the way forward.


vi /etc/rc.local -> add what you need to run on boot
chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
systemctl enable rc-local.service

It's still supported, but disabled by default by both the unit being
disabled and the file being non-executable.  This works on 7, no idea
about 8.  They probably broke it there.






                                                        John


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