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The most visible parts of the "Init" facility are:
- [/sbin/init and /etc/inittab]program and it's configfuration data
file
- [/etc/init.d]scripts for starting and stoping processes
- [/etc/rc.d/]scripts and subdirectories rc1.d, rc2.d, ..., rc6.d
- [/etc/sysconfig/]additional "sources" and subdirectory
network-scripts
On a RedHat 9.0 system, 'ls -R /etc/sysconfig/ /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/
| wc -l' reports 671 entries!
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