Re: significance of 2 digit number in rc.d directory.

[Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@baywinds.org>]

I was under the impression that the scripts executed in numerical order. 
  They do under Solaris anyway


rich+ml@lclogic.com wrote:

> There really is no significance. The scripts are executed in alphabetical
> order (somebody does "for script in S*; do exec $script start; done"), and
> the two digit sequence is a typographical convention to make it easy to
> manage that order.
> 
> == Rich 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mohammed Khalid Ansari wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:23:25 +0530 (IST)
>>From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <khalid@ncst.ernet.in>
>>To: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
>>Subject: significance of 2 digit number in rc.d directory.
>>
>>
>>I have seen that the files in rc.d directory starting with either S or K
>>are followed by two digit number. I understand that S stands for start and
>>K for kill but what is the significance of the numbers that followed.
>>
>>Any idea?
>>
>>
>>
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