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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Chandrashekar Babu wrote:

Is the behavior (steps followed bi /sbin/init) is same in Fedora,
Mandrak and Debian. Usually init reads inittab file and execute files
from rcN.d  (depending on runlevel N)

The overall mechanism how /sbin/init works is mostly the same across all Linux distributions. However, the way system startup scripts work - vary from one distro to another. The /etc/inittab file thus will look a bit different (the names and locations of startup scripts vary, runlevel schemes vary). Though the format /syntax of /etc/inittab remains the same.

You can walk-through the system startup scripts to get an idea about how the system 
startup scripts are called (rc.sysinit and rc on Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake. rcS and rc on 
debian. rc.S and rc.M on Slackware). These scripts must be located either in 
/etc/init.d/ or /etc/rc.d/ directories.

also the runlevels are different. On Debian you find a full functional
working system at runlevel 2. that's not the case with dists like RH.
For slack I'd heard it's based on the init structure of the BSD's.

- -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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