Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:57 PM 04/02/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> /snip/
>
> In SuSE 7.1 they have moved to /etc/init.d because that's what the FHS
> says it should be (probably a compromise between what SuSE did and what
> Red Hat did).
>
> The scripts themselves are in /etc/init.d itself and the runlevel
> specifics in /etc/init.d/rcX.d
>
> I still havn't worked out what the .d stands for.
>
> Jonathan Riddell
Well, I'm no expert, but it seems to me that files that end in
.d start a daemon--that is to say, some sort of process.  IF
I'm wrong someone will let us know!  --doug