It's not necessary to put in rc.local: I just went through this with
someone else: that's what init scripts are for, to allow you to turn
on, and turn off, the relevant feature in a user legible fashion, even
in RHEL 7.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:35 PM, greg boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> chmod +x  is the same as a+x
> actually, not quite. chmod +x adds x permission to all categories (user,
> group, other) that your current umask allows.
> so if your umask was 77 and the current perms were 744 (as above),
> chmod +x
> wouldn't do anything.
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Tom H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 5:52 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> > On 08/29/2015 02:18 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:
>> >>
>> >> To get systemd to start something at boot, you enter:
>> >>
>> >> systemctl enable foo
>> >
>> > Not on this one. But it is working now anyway, so go figure.
>> >
>> > # systemctl enable rc-local
>> > The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be
>> > enabled
>> > using systemctl.
>> > Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
>> > 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another
>> > unit's
>> > .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
>> > 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which
>> > has
>> > a requirement dependency on it.
>> > 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path,
>> > timer,
>> > D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
>>
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-rc-local-generator
>> creates a symlink from
>> /run/systemd/generator/multi-user.target.wants/rc-local.service
>> to
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service
>>
>> The above unit includes the following line
>> ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.d/rc.local
>>
>> So
>> /run/systemd/generator/multi-user.target.wants/rc-local.service
>> will be enabled in the multi-user runlevel if
>> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>> is executable (it works for me if its mode is 744 so I don't
>> understand why you need 755)
>
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