F16 rc.local file missing

[mcojettech737]

Ok i just burnt & installed the latest F16 x86_64 in the directory /etc was a file called rc.local in the past - dont get this confused with the directores /etc.rc.d. any way i used to use it to autoload modeprobe floppy module
so can i put modprobe in the fstab file?
what happend to rc.local file ?

thanks much

[DBelton]

the /etc/rc.local file isn't there by default anymore. The switch to using systemd instead of svsvinit changed quite a lot of things.

However, if you create the rc.local file and set it to be executable, then systemd will pick it up and run it on boot.

su -
(root password)

touch /etc/rc.local

chmod +x /etc/rc.local

(add whatever you want to your /etc/rc.local file)

systemctl enable rc-local.service

[mcojettech737]

[QUOTE=DBelton;1553234]the /etc/rc.local file isn't there by default anymore. The switch to using systemd instead of svsvinit changed quite a lot of things.

However, if you create the rc.local file and set it to be executable, then systemd will pick it up and run it on boot.

su -
(root password)

touch /etc/rc.local

chmod +x /etc/rc.local

(add whatever you want to your /etc/rc.local file)

systemctl enable rc-local.service

[/QUOTE

thanks so much

[PabloTwo]

The rc.local file is a BASH script file. The first line in the file needs to be: #!/bin/bash

BASH:~/-> head -5 /media/Fedora-12-i686-L/etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

[mcojettech737]

the /etc/rc.local file isn't there by default anymore. The switch to using systemd instead of svsvinit changed quite a lot of things.

However, if you create the rc.local file and set it to be executable, then systemd will pick it up and run it on boot.

su -
(root password)

touch /etc/rc.local

chmod +x /etc/rc.local

(add whatever you want to your /etc/rc.local file)

systemctl enable rc-local.service

seems i ran into a problem
systemctl enable rc-local.service
Warning: unit files do not carry install information. No operation executed.

[PabloTwo]

What do you get with:

systemctl status rc-local.service

[mcojettech737]

What do you get with:

systemctl status rc-local.service

heres the info - the local service won't activate (it refuses)

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl enable rc-local.service
Warning: unit files do not carry install information. No operation executed.
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status rc-local.service
rc-local.service - /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static)
Active: failed since Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:34:12 -0500; 18min ago
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rc-local.service

i put the file in /etc maybe it needs to be in /etc/rc.d ???

this sytemd stuff is pretty crazy

[PabloTwo]

I don't know why the rc-local.service isn't starting, but maybe you're right about the rc.local file needing to be in /etc/rc.d/ directory. That is where I put my rc.local file (/etc/rc.d/rc.local), plus, I created a symlink to it in /etc/.

Try moving the file to /etc/rc.d/ and see what happens. Also, did you make the rc.local file a executable bash script by adding the "shbang" line at the head of the file as I suggested earlier, and make the file executable (chmod +x) as DBelton instructed?

[mcojettech737]

heres what iv'e found out so far. in F15 /etc rc.local was a sybolic shell script that pointed to /etc/rc.d/rc.local shell scipt. inside was #!/bin/sh
#
#
#
touch /va/lock/subsys/local witch just had a plain text document
then i had my modprobe floppy below the touch statement.

anyway i fount an old bug report when F16 was in testing and someone decided that it needed to be removed.
Bug # 734268
https://bugzilla.redhad.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734268 where it ws aked to be removed. funny i always thought that the advancement of an O.S. meant things got simpler not harder.. shoot we dont even have icons put on out desktop to mount & unmount stuff.
anyway, i don't understan the report so... maybe someone could read it... please

---------- Post added at 05:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:29 PM ----------

ok ok ok i got it !!!
touch /etc/rrc.d/c.local
first line #!/bin/sh
droped a few lines down
then added modprobe floppy and saved it
then chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.local

no need to try to enable it. if its an exacutable shell scipt systemd picks it up automatically on reboot.

weeeeeee

thanks fellas !!!!!