How to configure a command, script, or daemon to run after boot has finished in RHEL 7
环境
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- systemd
问题
- How can we configure a command, script, application, or daemon to run after all other service scripts and systemd init tasks?
决议
Disclaimer: The following information has been provided by Red Hat, but is outside the scope of the posted Service Level Agreements and support procedures. Red Hat does not support the implementation of custom scripts, including custom systemd startup scripts. This article is provided as a how-to and Red Hat will not troubleshoot any issues after the implementation of the steps provided here. The intent of this article is to provide information to accomplish the system's needs. Use of the information in this article at the user's own risk.
- For RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 configuration:
- RHEL 5 - How to configure a command, script, or daemon to run after boot has finished in RHEL 5 and older
- RHEL 6 - How to configure a command, script, or daemon to run after boot has finished in RHEL 6
1. Create a new /etc/systemd/system/very-last.service file with the following content:
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[Unit]
Description=Very last service
After=default.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/very-last
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
2. Reload systemd daemon:
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# systemctl daemon-reload
3. Enable the newly created service very-last:
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# systemctl enable very-last
4. Create the custom script specified in ExecStart=, in this case /usr/local/sbin/very-last:
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# echo '#!/bin/bash' > /usr/local/sbin/very-last
5. Set the permissions to it:
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# chmod 700 /usr/local/sbin/very-last
Note: if SELinux is enforcing, run restorecon -Fvvv /usr/local/sbin/very-last to set the context.
6. Edit /usr/local/sbin/very-last to include desired commands
7. Reboot the system to test it.
8. After boot, use systemd-analyze plot > file.svg to generate an image of the boot process for inspection. There could be one or two short-lived services starting after very-last.service. If that's a problem, modify /etc/systemd/system/very-last.service to set Type=idle and if the script could take more than 90 secs to run, also set TimeoutStartSec=0.
根源
With the switch to systemd in RHEL 7, rc.local no longer runs near the end of the boot process.
Instead of using rc.local, create a custom service unit configured with After=default.target and WantedBy=default.target to launch a script, command, or series of commands.
