Run script as root after X starts
Hello fellow sysadmins
The problem im having is my laptop will boot up without anyone keyboard backlight but with screen at max brightness. As soon as X starts and I get the login screen, my keyboard backlight is at full brightness too.
I found the "echo # > " one liner that works well on tuning my screen brightness and keyboard brightness, but it does have an effect if I add it to rc.local because X starts and everything gets reset. I've tried putting a sleep in my screen and running it in the background so rc.local can execute, the x session can start and I can login and the timer would be up and the script would run, but no luck.
The distro im currently using is Ubuntu. After I can get Ubuntu to run on this laptop the way I want it, im going to move onto other distros. So what I really need to know is how do I run a script after login but AS ROOT because these commands request root to be able to echo the value to the acpi_video0/brightness file or keyboard backlight file.
Any help would be great. Spent two days on this already and havent gotten anywhere.
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I know the topic is old, but I thought it best not to leave it without a solution, since I found information closely related to this problem to be sparce.
The text file which contains the value (1-100) of screen brightness on the laptop of the OP should be at /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness. A working solution for systems still running init is easily found with some googling.
If you have a system with systemd, you have to create an rc.local script at the following path: /usr/local/sbin/rc.local
It should contain a delayed echo to the brightness file, which will run in the background, such as this:(sleep 15 ; echo "40" > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness)&
It will run as root, so no worries. Also, don't forget to make it executable. To do that, open a console and run:sudo chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/rc.local
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Now, you need to create a systemd service file which will invoke your rc.local script. Create it with this path: /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service
and with the the following content:[Unit] Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/local/sbin/rc.local [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/rc.local TimeoutSec=0 StandardOutput=tty RemainAfterExit=yes SysVStartPriority=99 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Lastly, enable the service:sudo systemctl enable rc-local
Reboot and be happy.0
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