You would think this one would be an easy one to find on the net, but ... First, before anyone shakes the finger at me, $ ls -al /etc/rc.d/rc.local -rwxr--r--. 1 root root 1013 Aug 29 11:20 /etc/rc.d/rc.local How do you get rc.local to execute at boot time? I can execute it from the command line with and it does what I want: # systemctl start rc-local but it doesn't want to start at boot. Many thanks, -T $ systemctl -la | grep -i rc-local rc-local.service loaded failed failed /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility