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This document provides instructions for creating a custom script that runs automatically during boot in CentOS/RHEL 7. It describes creating a sample script, configuring a systemd service unit, reloading systemd, enabling and starting the service, and verifying it runs on reboot.

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CentOS - RHEL 7 - How To Create Custom Script To Run Automatically During Boot - The Geek Diary

This document provides instructions for creating a custom script that runs automatically during boot in CentOS/RHEL 7. It describes creating a sample script, configuring a systemd service unit, reloading systemd, enabling and starting the service, and verifying it runs on reboot.

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CentOS / RHEL 7 : How to create custom script to run automatically during
HOWTOS | BASICS | CONCEPTS

boot

By admin (https://www.thegeekdiary.com/author/sandeep_patil/)

In RHEL 5 and 6, we were using automatic startup feature of RHEL through /etc/rc.d/init.d to run any script at system boot.
Starting with RHEL 7 init is replaced by systemd and the prior method is now deprecated. There is another way in RHEL 7 to
do the same.

Creating the custom script


1. Let us rst create a sample custom script to be run at system boot automatically.

# vi /var/tmp/test_script.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "This is a sample script to test auto run during boot" > /var/tmp/script.out
echo "The time the script run was --> `date`" >> /var/tmp/script.out

2. Check and verify the le permission.

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# ls -lrt /usr/local/sbin/myscript.sh

3. Add execute permission(if it’s not already set).

# chmod +x /var/tmp/test_script.sh

Creating new systemd service unit


Create a new service unit le at /etc/systemd/system/sample.service with below content. The name of the service unit is
user de ned and can be any name of your choice.

# vi /etc/systemd/system/sample.service
[Unit]
Description=Description for sample script goes here
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/var/tmp/test_script.sh
TimeoutStartSec=0

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Here,

After= : If the script needs any other system facilities (networking, etc), modify the [Unit] section to i
Type= : Switch Type=simple for Type=idle in the [Service] section to delay execution of the script until a
WantedBy= : target to run the sample script in

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Enable the systemd service unit


1. Reload the systemd process to consider newly created sample.service OR every time when sample.service gets modi ed.

# systemctl daemon-reload

2. Enable this service to start after reboot automatically.

# systemctl enable sample.service

3. Start the service.

# systemctl start sample.service

4. Reboot the host to verify whether the scripts are starting as expected during system boot.

# systemctl reboot

Y O U M AY A L S O L I K E

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