Run script with rc.local: script works, but not at boot

Question

I have a node.js script which need to start at boot and run under the www-data user. During development I always started the script with:

su www-dat         


        

Answer 1

I am using CentOS 7.

$ cd  /etc/profile.d

$ vim yourstuffs.sh

Type the following into the yourstuffs.sh script.

type whatever you want here to execute

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-7.0/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Save and reboot the OS.

Answer 2

I got my script to work by editing /etc/rc.local then issuing the following 3 commands.

sudo mv /filename /etc/init.d/
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/filename 
sudo update-rc.d filename defaults

Now the script works at boot.

Answer 3

I had the same problem (on CentOS 7) and I fixed it by giving execute permissions to /etc/local:

chmod +x /etc/rc.local

Answer 4

I ended up with upstart, which works fine.

Answer 5

In Ubuntu I noticed there are 2 files. The real one is /etc/init.d/rc.local; it seems the other /etc/rc.local is bogus?

Once I modified the correct one (/etc/init.d/rc.local) it did execute just as expected.

Answer 6

rc.local only runs on startup. If you reboot and want the script to execute, it needs to go into the rc.0 file starting with the K99 prefix.