[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#570958: sysvinit-utils: what are those boot and runlevel directories in /etc/init.d/?

[Ferenc Wagner]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.87dsf-8.1
Severity: normal

Hi,

man startpar says (focus on the last sentence):

       The -M option switches startpar into a make(1) like behaviour.  This option
       takes three  different  arguments:  boot,  start,  and  stop  for  reading
       .depend.boot  or .depend.start or .depend.stop respectively in the directory
       /etc/init.d/.  By scanning the boot  and  runlevel directories in /etc/init.d/
       it then executes the appropriate scripts in parallel.

There are no directories under /etc/init.d on my systems, isn't this some leftover
(and confusing) SuSE heritage?

Thanks,
Feri.