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This is a request for enhancement: Currently, if I distribute some post-boot scripts, I have to change /etc/rc.d/rc.local each time. I would e.g. do this by distributing rpm packages, so it would be a good idea to have similar mechanism like introduced in Linux vixie-cron (/etc/cron.d). I have no 100% idea how to implement this proper, one would be to extend rc.local, another would be to extend rc itself or create a rc.local.d somewhere and add proper support. BTW: here some examples of common used post-boot scripts which are currently stored in rc.local on our systems: # Set VESA timeout on console echo -en "\033[14;10]" >/dev/console # Send notify about reboot echo -e "System $HOSTNAME booted on `date`\n\nKernel: `uname -a`\n\nLast logins:\n`last -30`" | mail -s "System $HOSTNAME booted on `date`" hostmaster # Workaround for buggy RHEL if serial console is active (Bugzilla #150769) . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard loadkeys $KEYTABLE.map </dev/tty0 >/dev/tty0 Each can be a scriptlet and stored in a directory and waiting to be executed by rc or rc.local or whatelse before finishing boot.
What prevents these from being 'normal' /etc/rcX.d/S** scripts?
One line of functional shell code results in around 50 lines of script code, and one chkconfig call ... overkill. Perhaps a simple if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/scriptlets.d ]; then run-parts /etc/rc.d/scriptlets.d touch /var/lock/subsys/scriptlets.d fi would be fullfil my feature requests (can test this next days and provide a patch).
Switched version to "devel" to get more publicity for this RFE. Note that in productive environment this would be a good extension, think about a company's "adjustment" RPM package, which contains some local cron entries (stored in /etc/cron.d/) and some post startup scripts, which can be pushed into /etc/rc.local.d (if available in the future).
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Issue still exists, don't know whether the new init framework supports such extension.
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upstart should be able to handle this fine ; see the /etc/event.d/tty scripts for an example.