From: tomas@mamma.varadinet.de
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: David Lloyd-Jones <david.lloyd-jones@attcanada.ca>
Cc: David Lloyd-Jones <david.lloyd-jones@netcom.ca>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [OT] init.d [was: Re: And Furthermore. Was: PSQL Working, but PGAccess Not Connecting.]
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:08:18 +0200
Message-ID: <20000803070818.A1453@mail.aura.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008020909.e7299A109163@linda.lfix.co.uk>
References: <david.lloyd-jones@attcanada.ca>
<200008020909.e7299A109163@linda.lfix.co.uk>
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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