From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Ferrell Subject: Re: significance of 2 digit number in rc.d directory. Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:56:09 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CFECF49.8010704@baywinds.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: rich+ml@lclogic.com Cc: Mohammed Khalid Ansari , linux-admin 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 >>To: linux-admin >>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? >> >> >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >