Startup Scripts
A common task for many shell programmers is writing system startup scripts. In this section, you will develop a basic system startup script that can be reused (after a little editing). Before you begin, let's look at a little background into the UNIX system startup and initialization.
System Startup
When a UNIX system starts, the first program to be executed is init (usually located in /sbin). This program is responsible for system startup and initialization. In early versions of UNIX, init was aided in this by the script /etc/rc. This script handled all of the nitty-gritty details of system initialization such as checking the disks, starting the networking layers, and enabling console and remote login programs.
When a system ...
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