[TriLUG] initscripts

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:34, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> What is the initscripts RPM for?  I mean, what uses it?  I get a message
> from up2date that I've changed something about it and I don't know what
> it is referring to exactly.  I was just wondering.  Thanks!

The initscripts are the scripts that run at boot and setup all
the services on your computer.  They're usually found in
/etc/rc.d/init.d (or /etc/init.d).  init generally runs them
from a /etc/rc.d/rc.<runlevel>/ directory which generally has
links back to the init.d directory.

Tanner
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