rc.common not run on mac os x

问题:

I want to run a shell script on startup

by google ,I found that I could add shell in rc.common

so I added the code below at the end of rc.common

is it a permission problem?

## rc.common test ##
touch ~/test.txt

reboot，there is no test.txt in my user fold

when I test it in terminal manualy ，it's ok

ls -l /etc/rc.common
-rw-r--r--  1 guirong  wheel  1737  3 30 22:36 /etc/rc.common

where is the problem? my system verison is 10.7.3 is it not ran by default in os x?

回答1:

If you want the script to be run only for the current user, you should use ~/.bashrc instead

Later edit: I misread your question. If you want something to run at startup, you should look into launchd here

回答2:

Just as an added bit of information about what was happening; /etc/rc.common runs as root, so when you were touching the file at ~/test.txt it would have been ending up in /var/root (the root user's home directory)