What are the rc.d directories
- By Preneesh AV --
- 21-Jun-2019 --
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What are the rc.d directories?
Below list of directories in /etc/rc.d and represents run levels with different modes of operating system
- /etc/rc.d/rc0.d – 0 – HALT or shutdown the system – All symlinks with K extensions must go here
- /etc/rc.d/rc1.d – 1 – Single mode system
- /etc/rc.d/rc2.d – 2 – Multi user mode with out networking
- ,/etc/rc.d/rc3.d – 3 – Multi user mode with networking enabled. most of the all startup scripts will go here.
- /etc/rc.d/rc4.d – 4 – Not used
- /etc/rc.d/rc5.d – 5 – GUI enabled and starts system with normal mode. Add startup scripts in this.
- /etc/rc.d/rc6.d – 6 – Reboots the system and most scripts start with K level goes into this folder to kill the process
