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Old 02-13-2006
Initialization & Startup Files

Hi Every Body, I want to know which files are read by the system during startup (initialization files) & in which order they are read?
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Old 02-13-2006
inittab may be a good place to start.
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Old 02-14-2006
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Originally Posted by aldowsary
Hi Every Body, I want to know which files are read by the system during startup (initialization files) & in which order they are read?
start by looking at /sbin/rc.boot

It all starts there and branches depending on how you want to boot; runlevel, network boot, graphical etc...
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