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

[Kel Modderman]

On Monday 22 February 2010 23:32:20 Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, it should be "/etc/rc*.d/". SuSE puts these directories in /etc/init.d
afaik.

Thanks, Kel.