Resource Configuration Scripts
After init has been started, the remaining startup tasks in the system—the ones that start all the services and operating system processes—are handled by the resource configuration scripts. These scripts are compartmentalized based on their functions, and are all kept inside the /etc/rc.d directory.
The /etc/rc.d Directory
The resource configuration scripts in the modern versions of FreeBSD are all kept inside /etc/rc.d. Each shell program in this directory is a resource configuration script, a program that starts up a specific component of FreeBSD according to the system’s configuration. Some of these scripts are called recursively from other programs; some do nothing in the out-of-the-box configuration; and some, ...
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