Bug 1039465

Summary:	Consider replacing 'exit 0' in rc.local with 'true'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Marian Csontos <mcsontos>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	jscotka, lnykryn, systemd-maint-list
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	systemd-207-9.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-06-13 11:33:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:

Description Marian Csontos 2013-12-09 08:09:05 UTC

Description of problem:
'exit 0' in rc.local breaks any script who attempts to append to it.

What is the rationale behind the change?

This change is incompatible with previous releases and should be treated with due care.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-207-8.el7.x86_64

Actual results:
rc.local skips appended sections

Expected results:
rc.local should run everything there is

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2013-12-09 14:38:28 UTC

(In reply to Marian Csontos from comment #0)
> What is the rationale behind the change?
> 
> This change is incompatible with previous releases and should be treated
> with due care.
rc.local behaves quite differently from rhel6, so my intent was that administrator should read the warning in comments in this file.

But the proposal make sense, just please note that you still need to run chmod +x.

Comment 3 Lukáš Nykrýn 2013-12-13 12:16:28 UTC

After some thinking, we have this file for backward compatibility, so it would maybe make sense to use "touch /var/lock/subsys/local" again.

Comment 6 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:33:54 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further questions about the request.