On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:24:53AM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:46:24 +0000 (UTC) > > William Park via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I need to run a custom script at the later stage of bootup in Debian > > > 9.5 (board is BeagleBone Black). I seem to remember "rc.local" > > > long ago, but it's gone in the latest Ubuntu and Debian. Online > > > search says > > > (1) simply create "/etc/rc.local", and systemd will automatically pick > > > it up. > > > (2) use crontab, "@reboot ..." > > > Which is "proper" way in Debian world? > > > --William > > > > William, > > > > On my Fedora 27 laptop, placing rc.local into /etc/rc.d worked. > > > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > That's where it is on Slackware, too. But, I'm working with Debian 9.5 > which comes with BeagleBone Black. I tried option (1), and it seems to > work.
Yes Debian does have a systemd service by default called rc.local.service which will execute /etc/rc.local if it exists and is executable of course. Certainly using a file in /etc/cron.d with an @reboot time would work well too. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
