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Hello experts,
often enough one stumbles over the acronym (abbrevation?)
»RC« (/etc/*rc*.conf, /etc/conf.d/*rc*, *rc*[init script] in SUSE etc).
Anybody knows what it stands for?
--
Sven Ehret
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
Kernel version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9
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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:21, Sven Ehret stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
Hello experts,
often enough one stumbles over the acronym (abbrevation?)
»RC« (/etc/*rc*.conf, /etc/conf.d/*rc*, *rc*[init script] in SUSE
etc). Anybody knows what it stands for?
Just a guess, but I suspect it's something like "Runtime
Configuration"... ;-)
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user # 223157)
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Aragorn [stryder@telenet.invalid] wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:21, Sven Ehret stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
Hello experts,
often enough one stumbles over the acronym (abbrevation?)
»RC« (/etc/*rc*.conf, /etc/conf.d/*rc*, *rc*[init script] in SUSE
etc). Anybody knows what it stands for?
Just a guess, but I suspect it's something like "Runtime
Configuration"... ;-)
Close. SuSE calls it Resource Control, while older Eunices call it
runlevel control. I think the latter might be more accurate (except for
for Gentoo, which uses named pseudo-runlevels to start/stop scripts
instead of the system runlevel).
--
*Art
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Aragorn wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:21, Sven Ehret stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
Hello experts,
often enough one stumbles over the acronym (abbrevation?)
»RC« (/etc/*rc*.conf, /etc/conf.d/*rc*, *rc*[init script] in SUSE
etc). Anybody knows what it stands for?
Just a guess, but I suspect it's something like "Runtime
Configuration"... ;-)
The usual explanation is that 'rc' is short for "Run Control"
- --
Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 21:32, Arthur Hagen stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
Aragorn [stryder@telenet.invalid] wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:21, Sven Ehret stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
Hello experts,
often enough one stumbles over the acronym (abbrevation?)
»RC« (/etc/*rc*.conf, /etc/conf.d/*rc*, *rc*[init script] in SUSE
etc). Anybody knows what it stands for?
Just a guess, but I suspect it's something like "Runtime
Configuration"... ;-)
Close. SuSE calls it Resource Control, while older Eunices call it
runlevel control. I think the latter might be more accurate (except
for for Gentoo, which uses named pseudo-runlevels to start/stop
scripts instead of the system runlevel).
Yes, but that wouldn't go for files like /bashrc/ or /.bashrc,/ or any
of the other /*rc/ text files. In that case, I would say "resource
control" would be a more uniform designation. ;-)
Runlevels are also not a feature of all UNIX systems. They were
introduced in System V, but I'm not sure whether BSD had those as well.
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user # 223157)
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:51:15 +0000, Aragorn wrote:
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Yes, but that wouldn't go for files like /bashrc/ or /.bashrc,/ or any
of the other /*rc/ text files.
[snip]
Don't remember from what book I got it, but in that case
I seem to remember it comes from "human Readable Configuration file"
(with binary configuration stuff as the opposite...). The text
did go on and on about all things unix using plain text files for just
about anything and that generally being considered a good thing...
mvg,
Dieter
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