How to Enable /etc/rc.local with Systemd Rumi, February 24, 2020 If you are running a Linux distro that uses Systemd, then you may find that your command in /etc/rc.local file would not run on system boot. This guide explains how to enable /etc/rc.local script to run on system startup. Enable /etc/rc.local on Systemd If you type the following command in terminal: sudo systemctl status rc-local You may get this output: rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-11-26 23:54:58 CST; 59s ago Process: 1001 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Nov 26 23:54:57 vivid rc.local[1001]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 920, in require Nov 26 23:54:57 vivid rc.local[1001]: needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) Nov 26 23:54:57 vivid rc.local[1001]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 807, in resolve Nov 26 23:54:57 vivid rc.local[1001]: raise DistributionNotFound(req) Nov 26 23:54:57 vivid rc.local[1001]: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: shadowsocks==2.8.2 Nov 26 23:54:58 vivid sudo[1008]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Nov 26 23:54:58 vivid systemd[1]: rc-local.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Nov 26 23:54:58 vivid systemd[1]: Failed to start /etc/rc.local Compatibility. Nov 26 23:54:58 vivid systemd[1]: Unit rc-local.service entered failed state. Nov 26 23:54:58 vivid systemd[1]: rc-local.service failed. And if you try to enable /etc/rc.local to run on system boot with the command: sudo systemctl enable rc-local You may get: The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit’s wants/ or .requires/ directory. 2) A unit’s purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, …). The solution As you can see from above, The unit file have no [Install] section. As such Systemd can not enable it. First we need to create a file: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service Then add the following content to it. [Unit] Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility ConditionPathExists=/etc/rc.local [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start TimeoutSec=0 StandardOutput=tty RemainAfterExit=yes SysVStartPriority=99 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save and close the file. To save a file in Nano text editor, press Ctrl+O, then press Enter to confirm. To exit the file, Press Ctrl+X. Next, run the following command to make sure /etc/rc.local file is executable. sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local Note: Starting with 16.10, Ubuntu doesn’t ship with /etc/rc.local file anymore. You can create the file by executing this command. printf '%s\n' '#!/bin/bash' 'exit 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/rc.local Then add execute permission to /etc/rc.local file. sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local After that, enable the service on system boot: sudo systemctl enable rc-local Output: Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rc-local.service to /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service. Now start the service and check its status: sudo systemctl start rc-local.service sudo systemctl status rc-local.service Output: rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-11-27 00:32:56 CST; 14min ago Process: 879 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 880 (watch) CGroup: /system.slice/rc-local.service Source: How to Enable /etc/rc.local with Systemd Related Administrations Configurations (Linux) Debian 10rc.localUbuntu 18
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root@:~# sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local root@:~# sudo systemctl enable rc-local root@:~# sudo systemctl start rc-local.service Job for rc-local.service failed. See ‘systemctl status rc-local.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details. root@:~# sudo systemctl status rc-local.service rc-local.service – /etc/rc.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-02-06 18:11:20 CET; 3s ago Process: 8140 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) Reply