Bug 1178488

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/rc.local misses executable permissions
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Peter Bieringer <pb>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	7.0	CC:	lnykryn, systemd-maint-list
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Description Peter Bieringer 2015-01-04 09:14:54 UTC

Description of problem:
/etc/rc.d/rc.local isn't executed by systemd because of misses executable permissions

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-208-11.el7_0.5.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot

Actual results:
# ls -1 /var/lock/subsys/local
ls: cannot access /var/lock/subsys/local: No such file or directory


Expected results:
# ls -1 /var/lock/subsys/local
/var/lock/subsys/local


Additional info:

looks like file spec in systemd are improper, currently 644, but should be 755
# rpm -qvl systemd |grep "/etc/rc.d/rc.local"
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root  


Workaround:

chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-01-05 09:09:00 UTC

This is intentional, we want users to understatnd that rc.local does not and can't work in the same way as in rhel6.
There is a explanatory comment in the rc.local.

# THIS FILE IS ADDED FOR COMPATIBILITY PURPOSES
#
# It is highly advisable to create own systemd services or udev rules
# to run scripts during boot instead of using this file.
#
# In contrast to previous versions due to parallel execution during boot
# this script will NOT be run after all other services.
#
# Please note that you must run 'chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.local' to ensure
# that this script will be executed during boot.