Chapter 27. Deployment and Tools

When attempting to start, stop, or restart a service or unit using the systemctl [start|stop|restart] NAME command, no message is displayed to inform the user whether the action has been successful.

The /etc/rc.d/rc.local file does not have executable permissions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. If commands are added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, the file has to be made executable afterwards.

By default, /etc/rc.d/rc.local does not have executable permissions because if these permissions are detected, the system has to wait until the network is "up" before the boot process can be finished.

The flightrecorder package is currently not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.