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Old 01-02-2003, 07:17 AM   #1
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Question restarting services


I have RH 7.3 .

I noticed that I can restart a service from /etc/init.d or from /etc/rc.d/init.d what is the diffarance between the two directories? why from the two directories I can stop/start services?
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Old 01-02-2003, 07:20 AM   #2
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they are the same directory
Code:
[chris@trevor chris]$ ls -l /etc/init.d
   0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Mar 23  2002 /etc/init.d -> rc.d/init.d/
 
  


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