changing systemd service in RedHat 7 - redhat

I wanted RedHat/CentOS 7, to do something after boot.
I change rhel-configure.service by editing the script called by that service: /lib/systemd/rhel-configure (& touch /.unconfigured) and add the line I wanted to perform after boot.
Nothing happen after boot. Also did not find anything in journalctl output.
How can I debug it or make it work?

Normally, when you want to execute a task at boot, you use the rc-local service.
Everything is explained here: http://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-rc-local-service/

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How to run a powershell script on startup in safe mode as an administrator

At the company I work for, we use Bit9 as part of our security stack. We are in the process of upgrade the version to 8.0 (and eventually 8.2) on all of our devices. Between the automatic upgrades and a different script I wrote, I was able to upgrade about 1000. But there are still about 700 left where the CLI password from Bit9 is not working, and the devices are not checking in to allow auto upgrade.
Bit9 has come back and suggested the following:
Boot the endpoint into Safe Mode w/ Networking
Run a script that executes the following Administrative commands from a CMD prompt (please note the proper spacing between start= disabled):
sc config parity start= disabled
sc config paritydriver start= disabled
Boot into Normal Mode
I've written a script that is supposed to do all of this, except I cannot for the life of me get the script to run once the device starts in safe mode. I've tried everything that I can think of:
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Placing a batch file in the Startup folder
Scheduled task
Nothing I do is working.
And one other caveat, the user that is logging in (safe mode & normal mode) is not an administrator. It is a regular user. I am kicking off the initial script with BigFix, which does run as an administrator.
Thanks in advance.
I was finally able to get it to work. The service idea was the starting point, though instead of creating a "fake" service, I actually wrote a service in C# that calls the PS script. I was then able to edit the registry, where I made that service able to start in safe mode. That seemed to do the trick. Now the only issue is that I can't seem to disable safe mode programmatically, but I will ask that as a separate question.

Getting DataVirt to Run when Instance is Started

DataVirt runs as it should when I execute standalone.sh in the DataVirt instance. Is there a way to fire it off automatically when the instance is started, so that executing standalone.sh will not be required? I believe there is a way to do this, but I am not sure how.
Search for how to run WildFly as service like in https://developer.jboss.org/thread/272255 depending upon your OS.

How to run the Play's dist file in the background?

When I deployed my play application I built the package using:
dist
This created a file that I can run on my server like:
sudo ./bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090
This works fine for testing but how can I run this process in the background?
I will eventually have to use upstart or some sort of process monitoring tool to make sure this process is running after server reboots etc.
Using play 2.3.x
Since you are on ubuntu
sudo ./bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090 &
should do the trick.
Ceating the upstart script is also fairly easy https://askubuntu.com/questions/18802/how-to-correctly-add-a-custom-daemon-to-init-d
In your case it would be in /etc/init/app-name.conf and look like
# app-name
#
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
exec $PATH_TO_APP/bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090
Of course you will want to change the RUNLEVEL and the PATH_TO_APP
That of course depends on the system at which you're deploying the app, anyway in general you need to run it as a deamon.
Refer to your system's documentations, I'm pretty sure that you will find tutorial very soon.

Why won't my Telescope app start with Upstart?

I've followed instructions online to set up a Telescope instance on my DigitalOcean droplet, but it won't start with Upstart.
I'm able to run the server successfully manually, but the Upstart task doesn't fire when the server boots. I'm sure I should be looking at a log file somewhere to discover the problem, but I'm not sure where.
I've looked for the location of upstart logs, but I'm not having any luck. Either you have to add something to your script to make it log, or it just does it according to accounts online, but neither of those seem to be the case for me.
When I try to search for help on Upstart, I'm also seeing people saying I should be using systemd instead, but I can't figure out how to install it on CentOS 6.5.
Can anyone help me figure a way out of this labyrinth?
I use Ubuntu server 14.04, and my upstart logs are located in /var/log/upstart
The log usually contains stdout from the job, and it should help you understand what's wrong.
My guess is that when the server boots and tries to run your job, MongoDB is not yet ready so it fails silently.
Try installing the specific MongoDB version that Meteor is using at the moment (2.4.9) using these docs :
http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
The most important thing is to get upstart support for MongoDB, this will allow us to catch mongod launch as an event.
You can then use this syntax in your upstart script :
start on started mongodb
This will make your node app start when mongo is ready.
I've created a gist with the scripts I wrote to setup a server ready for Meteor app deployment, it's a bit messy and probably specific to Ubuntu but it might help you.
https://gist.github.com/saimeunt/4ace7975b12df06ee0b7
I'm also using demeteorizer and forever which are two great tools you should probably check.

How can I make a batch file calling JBOSS to run like a service?

Just curious if theres a way to do this...
Basically I'll be calling Jboss from a batch file, and I want to have it run in a seperate thread or service
Any idea how to do this?
We use jbosssvc.exe to run jboss as a service.
Once you have that set up, you can put in your batch file net start JBAS4SVC