Today at 1:58pm, Mark Hattarki expounded:
++ I was explaining how rc.local starts processes at boot to a non-techie and
++ they asked me what the "rc" stood for. My first guess was runlevel
++ control, but someone else reminded me that the early BSDs had them, but no
++ concepts of runlevel. Anyway, I figure it stands for "resource control" or
++ something like that (consistent with things like .pinerc, etc...).
FWIW, the BSDs still don't. Although I understand NetBSD recently added
/etc/rc.d/ scripts similar to the init.d scripts in Linux. I understand
FreeBSD will follow that. OpenBSD is not. Darwin ... who knows?
They still don't have runlevels at all. (And how often *do* you run in
runlevel 3 on the desktop or runlevel 5 on the server? *NOT* that I am
trying to start that war.) It still has a single-user mode thing for when
you fsck up the system.
-Paul
--
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go
around a deal faster.
-- The Duchess, "Through the Looking Glass"
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