# executing script as last thing after boot or reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\ **Created:** [November 17, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631 "2015-11-17T18:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ron7000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@ron7000](https://forums.suse.com/u/ron7000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/1 "2015-11-17T18:51:34Z")
what and how is the best way to accomplish having a simple script execute once whenever the system boots? This would be for a cold boot from a powered off state, or after a reboot or init 6. And i would want the script to be the very last or as close to last thing that happens after boot/reboot. my script is just a few lmgrd commands to kick off some flexlm licenses, or echo the date and time to a text file of my choosing. ideally i would want the script to execute the lmgrd commands as some other user besides root. ---
**Author:** ![ron7000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@ron7000](https://forums.suse.com/u/ron7000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/2 "2015-11-17T21:07:02Z")
is the best/only way to do this by setting up the link in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ such as S90\_myscript and have it link to /etc/init.d/myscript and do a chkconfig --add /etc/init.d/myscript ? I was hoping there was some .local file I could place a call to my script, rather than editing a full blown service file for start/stop/restart and all that which i’ll never need. p.s. I am not asking for any code to be written :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/3 "2015-11-17T23:23:02Z")
Hi ron7000, [QUOTE=ron7000;30460]is the best/only way to do this by setting up the link in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ such as S90\_myscript and have it link to /etc/init.d/myscript and do a chkconfig --add /etc/init.d/myscript ? I was hoping there was some .local file I could place a call to my script, rather than editing a full blown service file for start/stop/restart and all that which i’ll never need. p.s. I am not asking for any code to be written :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] but you’ll get some 😉 From /etc/init.d/rc (which is handling start/stop of run levels): [CODE]# # Start the user defined resource control script which # should be executed _after_ runlevel is reached. # if test -f /etc/init.d/after.local ; then echo -n "Master Resource Control: " echo “Running /etc/init.d/after.local” /bin/sh /etc/init.d/after.local rc\_status -v1 -r splashtrigger “after.local” fi[/CODE] So you could put your code into /etc/init.d/after.local. Regards, Jens ---
**Author:** ![ron7000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@ron7000](https://forums.suse.com/u/ron7000)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/4 "2015-11-18T07:01:08Z")
I had come across after.local doing a web search and it was stated that, “This is executing scripts just after the initial machine boot, not the end of the init boot process” This statement had a date of 2012 though, so here is my after.local file ```auto #!/bin/bash echo "ronron running after.local" echo -n "whoami = " whoami echo "su to ron2" su ron2 echo -n "whoami = " whoami date >> /tmp/after.local.time.txt ``` below is a cleaned up except from bottom of /var/log/boot.msg [code] Starting smartd done Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) SuSEfirewall2: done Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/after.local ronron running after.local whoami = root su to ron2 Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell. HOSTNAME: Undefined variable. linux /\> [/code] so it seems like using /etc/init.d/after.local is exactly what i need. still have to figure out how to not be root and use some other account to kick off the things i want to, my use of the su command in the script did not work. ---
**Author:** ![ron7000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@ron7000](https://forums.suse.com/u/ron7000)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/5 "2015-11-18T07:19:25Z")
got it, needed to do this in /etc/init.d/after.local: ```auto echo -n "su -c whoami ron2: whoami = " /bin/su -c whoami ron2 ``` that produced the following in /var/log/boot.msg ```auto Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/after.local ronron running after.local whoami = root su -c whoami ron2: whoami = ron2 doneMaster Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached ``` ---
**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/executing-script-as-last-thing-after-boot-or-reboot/27631/6 "2015-11-18T11:27:03Z")
Hi ron7000, > got it, needed to do this in /etc/init.d/after.local: […] yes, I was about to reply that “su” will start a sub-shell and that only commands within that sub-shell are running in the changed security context. If you have more than a single command to execute, create a wrapper script and call that instead (instead of creating a long, long “-c” parameter). Also, during boot the script is not running with a connected tty, hence the “Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).” message, as your original call to “su” tried to create an interactive shell (which is not meaningful without a tty 😉 ) Regards, Jens