Permission denied in rc.local

Question

Here's the contents of my /etc/rc.local

/etc/pm/power.d/99macbookair6 true
echo 0 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout 
exit 0

running service rc.local start returns

/etc/rc.local: 14: /etc/rc.local: /etc/pm/power.d/99macbookair6: Permission denied

Solution

The portion of the error message you want to look at is:

/etc/pm/power.d/99macbookair6: Permission denied

which says you do not have sufficient permission to execute /etc/pm/power.d/99macbookair6.

Even if you have some command here executable by you, you would still get permission denied error for:

echo 0 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout

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In a nutshell, you can do:

service rc.local start

only when you have all entries in /etc/rc.local executable by you (and also rc.local must be readable by you obviously). Same goes for brothers of start i.e. stop, restart etc.

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To get your current setup working, the most sane way is to run the command as root:

sudo service rc.local start

Comments

[edwinksl]

You need to run it with sudo.

[half-potato]

Thanks. However, it still doesn't run correctly on startup. Edit: Nevermind.

[half-potato]

I did chmod 777 /etc/pm/power.d/99macbookair6