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[bluegodzilla]

Hi everyone.

I need to change the permission of the /data/gps folder to rwx-rwx-rwx and I can obviously do this using ES File Explorer or Terminal Emulator but whatever changes I make will be reverted upon reboot.

So I made a shell script to have the folder permission changed at boot (I have no idea if the script is correct though).

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#!/system/bin/sh
chmod 777 /data/gps

I've seen people saying that whatever scripts placed within the init.d folder will be executed automatically upon boot. I have tried putting my script in the init.d folder but it didn't work.

On a separate occasion, I have also tried putting the script in /system/etc and adding the following lines into init.rc file to start the service on boot.

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#testscript
service myscript /system/etc/testscript.sh
oneshot

Obviously, that didn't work as well because whatever lines I add into the init.rc file will be reverted upon reboot. This should be a simple task but I don't have any knowledge on Linux or Android system and I don't know what else to try. If I did anything wrong, could somebody please help me with it. I'm a retard sigh.

Edited by bluegodzilla, 05 February 2012 - 11:53 AM.

[Spitemare]

Make a folder on your /data partition:

mkdir -p /data/local/userinit.d

Put your script in that directory and make sure it is executable.

cp <script> /data/local/userinit.d
chmod 755 /data/local/userinit.d/<script>

[bluegodzilla]

Spitemare, on 06 February 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

Make a folder on your /data partition:

mkdir -p /data/local/userinit.d

Put your script in that directory and make sure it is executable.

cp <script> /data/local/userinit.d
chmod 755 /data/local/userinit.d/<script>

Hi Spitemare,

Thanks for the reply. I just tried doing what you suggested but it doesn't seem to work. Do the scripts placed in /data/local/userinit.d get executed at boot as well? I need to make the script run at boot but I can't figure out why it's not working.

[Spitemare]

What's your script look like?

[bluegodzilla]

Spitemare, on 07 February 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

What's your script look like?

My script is as in my first post.

Anyway, turns out that there's nothing wrong with the script after all. I tested the script with a different ROM and it seems to have worked fine. It doesn't work while I'm on CM9, doesn't CM9 support init.d? Just wondering.