| From: | tomas(at)mamma(dot)varadinet(dot)de |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | David Lloyd-Jones <david(dot)lloyd-jones(at)attcanada(dot)ca>, David Lloyd-Jones <david(dot)lloyd-jones(at)netcom(dot)ca>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [OT] init.d [was: Re: And Furthermore. Was: PSQL Working, but PGAccess Not Connecting.] |
| Date: | 2000-08-03 05:08:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20000803070818.A1453@mail.aura.de |
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> "David Lloyd-Jones" wrote:
> >But while I'm at it, I wonder if anybody knows why directories are named
> >"rc.d" and "init.d"?
> >
[...]
> .d = "directory"
>
In The Beginning (TM) it was just a huge shell script, /etc/rc. But
when it became fashionable to `install packages' it was a growing
pain to patch the corresponding start sequences into /etc/rc with
sed and friends.
Thus /etc/rc.d was born, as a sister to /etc/rc.
> rc = "runlevel commands" ???
>
Don't know either. But I think the concept of runlevel came later.
Regards
--
tomas
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