I want to define a file to be executed upon system startup in Fedora 20. I made this simple file and saved it in "/etc/init.d"

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
#chkconfig: 2345 20 80
#description: first init script for testing

start() {
echo "Hello World from myfirstinit start"
mkdir /home/danny/from_init
}

stop() {
echo "Hello World from myfirstinit stop"
}

echo -n $"MyFirstInit" > /home/danny/init

case "$1" in
start)
        start
        ;;
stop)
        stop
        ;;
reload)
        stop
        start
        ;;
*)
        echo $"usage $0 {start | stop}"
        exit 2
esac

This code should output a couple messages, depending on which argument is supplied, and also create a file names "init" and a directory named "from_init" in my home directory. Everything works perfectly if I run it like this:

:source ./myfirstinit start"

However, let's say I run it like this: "systemctl start myfirstsysteminit" it doesn't appear to do anything. An entry in the system log shows : SYS ... first init script for testing, which is the description in the file. That shows that systemctrl finds the right script and tries to execute it, but none of the other things happed.

Supposedly, this old style init file should be supported in Fedora 20. Can anyone see anything I'm doing wrong?

 

PS: In addition, I ran "chkconfig --add myfirstinit" to make the script available. And I run the following script and get the result shown:

[root@localhost etc]# for i in {0..6}; do cd rc$i.d; pwd; ls -l | grep myfirstinit; cd ..; done
/etc/rc0.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 K80myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc1.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 K80myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc2.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 S20myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc3.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 S20myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc4.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 S20myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc5.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 S20myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit
/etc/rc6.d
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Jan  7 18:43 K80myfirstinit -> ../init.d/myfirstinit

 

sometimes it will occured a problem.

 

I don't have experience with Linux shell scripting, so I'm not sure if I correctly understand exactly what you're trying to do, but I thought this link might be helpful: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/51395/how-to-start-a-program-automatic/. If you have the rc.local service enabled, you can also use that to run a program on startup (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295309). Hope this helps.

 

The first method is the same as described in the original post, though there remains the possibility that I've made a mistake. I'll take a look at the other methods to see if there's anything I can use. Also, I found this page by mistake:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lpic1-v3-101-3/

Lots of good info, but I haven't digested it all yet.