/etc/rc.local in Ubuntu 18.04


I recently created an Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure to run a test service I work on in my spare time and noticed that the /etc/rc.local file doesn't exist by default anymore. There are other (probably preferred) ways to start applications when the server boots by rc.local was in my opinion, the absolute easiest.

TL;DR => etc/rc.local still works, you just have to create it and then give it execute permissions. Remember that it is a shell script so it will need to be setup as one.

/etc/rc.local example

#!/bin/sh -e

cd /home/admin/test-service
./start-service &

sleep 10

# Always leave this line here
exit 0

Permission required for /etc/rc.local

sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc.local

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