Hello All,

I'm trying to understand how are the numbers assigned to the services/subsystems under /etc/init.d/rcN.d in Linux (or any OS). Where do the services get the numbering from. I tried google but couldn't find closely related info. Thanks in advance.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 14 11:59 K92firewall -> ../init.d/firewall
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 14 11:59 S10network -> ../init.d/network
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 14 11:59 S12syslog -> ../init.d/syslog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 14 11:59 S17keytable -> ../init.d/keytable
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 14 11:59 S56rawdevices -> ../init.d/rawdevices
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 14 11:59 S56xinetd -> ../init.d/xinetd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 14 11:59 S75httpd -> ../init.d/httpd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 13 21:45 S99local -> ../rc.local

Each startup script contains dependencies. I.e. services which must be running before a certain new service can start. These dependencies are mentioned in the script header.

The startup sequence is derived from the dependencies by the insserv utility. When a script is linked in a rcX.d directory by update-rc.d, this program queries the insserv start/stop dependencies and assigns the correct Snn or Knn to the symlink.

jlinkels

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