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  From: Anthony Rumble <anthony@rumble.waratah.id.au>
  To  : Peter McCarthy <mccarthy@mail.austasia.net>
  Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:07:17 +1000 (EST)

Re: [SLUG] init scripts

> Hi how do the damn init scripts in Red Hat work.  My goal is to get =
> named running.  It apears in the rc.initd dir but what is the mechanism =
> to get it off the ground at boot ?

It's pretty simple.
It's based on the SYSV model

/etc/rc.d/init.d contains the actual scripts

/etc/rc.d/rc3.d contains SYM links to the init.d scripts

The way it's named has meaning..
For example...

S90inet

The Capital S means Start. 90 is a number that is used to specify
the order there executed in.. then a name so you know what it is.

What the init daemon does, is as it goes into a run level.. it starts at
the lowest number.. and if it's an S it will run that script with the
command line "start". If the letter is a K, it runs it with
the command level "Stop". (K stands for Kill)

Thats pretty much it.. A common way of disabling a service is to change the 
capital S to a small s

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