Bug 1380662

Summary: [RHEL System Guide] Please document the correct way to run a (one-time) script at the END of machine boot process
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004>
Component: doc-System_Administrators_GuideAssignee: Maxim Svistunov <msvistun>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 7.4CC: alexandru.tote, msekleta, rhel-docs, rsandu2004, tcapek
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2016-09-30 09:34:33 UTC 
Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/part-Infrastructure_Services.html

Section Number and Name: 

Part IV. Infrastructure Services

Describe the issue: 

With the introduction of systemd and the /etc/rc.d/rc.local being obsoleted, there is no obvious way to run a one-time Bash script (not a permanently running service!) at the VERY END of the boot process (after all other scripts and daemons were started).

This would be useful for various customizations.


Suggestions for improvement: 

Please document the correct (recommended) way to achieve this on RHEL systemd machines (roughly speaking, the equivalent of DOS's AUTOEXEC.BAT :) )


Thank you.
Comment 2 Maxim Svistunov 2016-11-03 15:33:53 UTC 
*** Bug 1285422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Răzvan Sandu 2016-11-23 16:52:09 UTC 
This bug was marked as "needinfo" for me, but I cannot see bug #1285422

Regards,
Răzvan
Comment 10 Maxim Svistunov 2016-12-02 16:30:53 UTC 
Răzvan reviewed the new section (thanks!) and is satisfied with it. Since I already have an ACK from Michal, I've merged this into master.

Setting this to VERIFIED. I plan to republish the System Administrator's Guide with the new section at the end of the next week.
Comment 12 Maxim Svistunov 2016-12-11 07:47:52 UTC 
This has been published to the Customer Portal:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-one-time_script_on_next_boot_using_systemd_unit_file.html