Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

Thorsten Glaser:

> I would be massively surprised if I installed a system, added 
> something to rc.local, and it were not run.
>
You would be massively surprised on Arch Linux and its derivatives, 
then.  systemd is built without its backwards compatibility mechanisms 
on Arch, and /etc/rc.local stopped working for Arch users over 7 years 
ago.  (An AUR package from a third party exists, but from the official 
repositories one does not obtain /etc/rc.local functionality at all.)  
Add stuff to /etc/rc.local, and nothing will happen.

* https://superuser.com/questions/278396/

It is quite amusing to see so much effort expended in the late 2010s on 
/etc/rc.local in the name of "System V init", when actual AT&T Unix 
System 3 init+rc (of which the van Smoorenburg rc on Linux is but a 
clone) superseded and replaced /etc/rc.local in 1983.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/rc.local-is-history.html