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[Nadeem Hasan <nhasan@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

.d here stands for "directory."

Doug McGarrett wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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