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Bug 978849 - RFE: hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
Summary: RFE: hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 959971
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-27 08:25 UTC by Petr Sklenar
Modified: 2013-08-06 13:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2013-08-06 13:41:44 UTC
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Description Petr Sklenar 2013-06-27 08:25:47 UTC
Description of problem:
Once we requested feature to see what happens during some stages.
There could be a way of hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
there is use case:
Try to execute some command before any other services start (previous rc.sysinit).
Try to execute some command after any other services start (previous rc.local). 


Actual results:


Expected results:
user would like to see progress during boot/shutdown

Additional info:

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2013-06-27 10:59:17 UTC
$ man bootup

you can create unit files with "After=" and "Before=" to sort yourself into the bootup sequence.

For /etc/rc.local there is /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service, which executes /etc/rc.local, if it exists. It is ordered "After=network.target".

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2013-06-27 11:03:08 UTC
To see what happens, remove "quiet" from the kernel command line, or inspect the journal after booting.

# journalctl -b

Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2013-08-06 13:41:44 UTC
As explained already in comment #2 you can create unit files with "After=" and "Before=" to sort yourself into the bootup sequence.

We also still support rc.local, but only for compatibility reasons, the rc.local support is deliberately not advertised in the systemd documentation, since we discourage its use.

The systemd documentation in general does not document deprecated compatibility mechanisms to avoid promoting the use of them, ie it also does not document that the service and chkconfig commands can still be used.


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