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Asked: 2015-05-17 15:29:37 +0800 CST

Using /etc/rc.local to turn off keyboard backlight no longer working in 15.04

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I have an Asus laptop, and the keyboard backlight comes on full at startup. I formerly used the instructions here to issue a sudo command to turn it off. Basically, the steps were:

  1. gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local
  2. put echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness before exit 0
  3. Save and sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

On upgrade to 15.04, this stopped working. And I can't seem to fix it. Any ideas???

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  1. Best Answer

    This is because of the new systemd. try:

    systemctl enable rc-local.service

    To check status:

    systemctl status rc-local.service

    make sure that /etc/rc.local is executable and has #!/bin/sh in the first line.

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