I know many directories with .d in their name: init.d yum.repos.d conf.d Does it mean directory? If yes, from what does this disambiguate? UPDATE: I've had many interesting answers about …

It says that the /etc/profile file sets the environment variables at startup of the Bash shell. The /etc/profile.d directory contains other scripts that contain application-specific startup files, …

So, each of the rcN directories contains symbolic links to the scripts that should be run at that runlevel. All the actual scripts are normally in the /etc/init.d directory: $ ls -l /etc/rc5.d/S22cron …

Feb 28, 2022 · Relationship between flags D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS and D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE Ask Question Asked 3 years, 10 months ago Modified 2 years, 8 …

Nov 28, 2017 · The .d design clearly separates configuration state owned by different entities. One might be owned by a package. Another might be installed via wget .... With a single …

Apr 20, 2017 · The format is pretty standard, and you can view existing scripts in /etc/init.d. You can then use the script like so /etc/init.d/myscript start or chkconfig myscript start.

Thanks. Are the files in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab independent of each other, and read by crond independently and separately? Or does /etc/crontab ever include the files in /etc/cron.d?

Does anybody have an idea about the full form of rc.d in, for example, /etc/rc.d? It contains scripts to used to control the starting, stopping and restarting of daemons.

Jul 5, 2017 · The choice between sudoers and sudoers.d has nothing to do with security, but everything with maintainability. By uncommenting the sudo group line in /etc/sudoers, you can …

Dec 15, 2018 · Could someone please explain this code that deletes all leading blank lines at the top of a file: sed '/./,$!d' file I understand that it is a regex, matching only the first character, but …