Bug 693974

Summary:	systemd: /etc/init.d/boot.local not executed
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Frederic Crozat <fcrozat>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	werner
Version:	Factory
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	696902

Description Jiri Slaby 2011-05-16 09:40:34 UTC

Maybe there is another way how to initialize something once at boot. But it's not definitely /etc/init.d/boot.local which worked with sysvinit. And I cannot find the way how to achieve that with systemd.

I have this in the script:
ethtool -s eth0 wol d
echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode

But neither of that is set.

Comment 1 Kay Sievers 2011-05-18 19:01:21 UTC

It's not hooked-in at the moment. We need to add a service file for it,
I guess.

In general: /proc/sys/ belongs into /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf, /sys belongs
into /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules

I think there is 'ethtool' support in the network config files, never tried any
of the static network setup though.

Comment 2 Frederic Crozat 2011-07-05 11:54:12 UTC

Jiri, could you create /etc/systemd/system/boot-local.service with the following content :
[Unit]
Description=Local service to start at end of boot
Requires=default.target
After=default.target
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/boot.local

and run :
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable boot-local.service

(I didn't test the file ;)

Comment 3 Jiri Slaby 2011-07-06 12:34:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Jiri, could you create /etc/systemd/system/boot-local.service with the
> following content :
> [Unit]
> Description=Local service to start at end of boot
> Requires=default.target
> After=default.target
> Type=oneshot
> ExecStart=/etc/init.d/boot.local
> 
> and run :
> systemctl daemon-reload
> systemctl enable boot-local.service

It yields:
Unit files contain no applicable installation information. Ignoring.

> (I didn't test the file ;)

Well, you apparently should have.

Comment 4 Frederic Crozat 2011-07-06 13:48:02 UTC

Sorry about that.

Correct content for /etc/systemd/system/boot-local.service:
[Unit]
Description=Local service to start at end of boot

[Service]
Requires=default.target
After=default.target
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/boot.local

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Comment 5 Jiri Slaby 2011-07-06 13:59:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry about that.
> 
> Correct content for /etc/systemd/system/boot-local.service:

I can enable the service, but every "systemctl isolate multi-user.target" invocation runs the boot.local script. However it should be run exactly once at boot time. Like with sysvinit.

Comment 6 Frederic Crozat 2011-07-06 15:25:39 UTC

please add 
RemainAfterExit=true

in the Service section

it should fix the isolate problem.

Comment 7 Jiri Slaby 2011-07-06 17:59:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> please add 
> RemainAfterExit=true
> 
> in the Service section
> 
> it should fix the isolate problem.

Yeah, it looks like it does what is expected from it now.

Comment 8 Frederic Crozat 2011-07-07 09:05:52 UTC

Thanks for your feedback. I'm going to integrate a unit file slighly different, since systemd has a similar unit file, which is fedora specific. I'll adapt it for suse. And I'll do similar port for halt.local

Comment 9 Frederic Crozat 2011-08-03 17:01:53 UTC

fixed in Factory

Comment 10 Sascha Peilicke 2012-10-29 13:17:25 UTC

Are there any plans to do a maintenance update for 12.2?

Comment 11 Frederic Crozat 2012-10-29 13:26:11 UTC

Hmm, this has been fixed before 12.2 was released.

Comment 12 Sascha Peilicke 2012-10-29 14:46:52 UTC

Indeed, /lib/systemd/system/local.service is there, /etc/init.d/boot.local has 744 perms and is executed. So it's a different issue, sorry for the noise.