December 1999
Beginner
528 pages
11h 10m
English
The directories where the rc.scripts are kept (actually they are links, we’ll discuss this later) live in either:
/etc/rcN.d
or
/etc/rc.d/rcN.d
where N is a number. There are usually seven, since the rcN.d directories are numbered 0 to 6, but you might have a couple more on your system such as rcS.d. This does not matter; all we are concerned about are the numbered ones.
$ pwd /etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc0.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc1.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc2.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc3.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc4.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 rc5.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Dec 22 1996 ...Read now
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