Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 06 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Hint: your mails are easier to read if you put a blank line between
> citations and your reply.
> On 2009-09-06 21:47 +0200, David Baron wrote:
>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:23:10 debian-user-digest-
>> request@lists.debian.org wrote:
>>> > The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot
>>> > and leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files.
>>>
>>> What are .rc files?
>> Reinstalling over testing did not flag them again!
> That does not answer my question, I still do not know what ".rc files"
> are in the first place.
:rc file: /R-C fi:l/ /n./ [Unix: from `runcom files' on
the {CTSS} system ca.1955, via the startup script
`/etc/rc'] Script file containing startup instructions for an
application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text
file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked
manually once the system was running but are to be executed
automatically each time the system starts up. See also {dot
file}, {profile} (sense 1).
:dot file: [Unix] /n./ A file that is not visible by default to
normal directory-browsing tools (on Unix, files named with a
leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory
listings). Many programs define one or more dot files in which
startup or configuration information may be optionally recorded; a
user can customize the program's behavior by creating the
appropriate file in the current or home directory. (Therefore, dot
files tend to {creep} -- with every nontrivial application
program defining at least one, a user's home directory can be
filled with scores of dot files, of course without the user's
really being aware of it.) See also {profile} (sense 1), {rc
file}.
manoj
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