Timeline for Why are init.d scripts in etc?
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| Sep 22, 2016 at 22:29 | comment | added | Neil McGuigan |
/tmp holds temporary data. /var holds variable data
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 18:56 | comment | added | GnP |
It's also interesting to note that modern sysVinit replacements do actually use simple configuration files instead of full fledged scripts, so /etc might end cleaned up of non-config stuff.
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 8:22 | comment | added | slebetman | @SatoKatsura: With the advent of compiled languages that feel like scripting languages I've started noticing some /etc scripts (even init scripts) being replaced by go programs - binary executables. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 8:03 | comment | added | Satō Katsura |
As you say, it's not that simple. Various commercial UNIX systems had actual binary executables in /etc at some point or another. At least init.d is mostly scripts on modern systems. But it still isn't possible to have /etc mounted readonly.
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 1:12 | vote | accept | Adam Thompson | ||
| Aug 28, 2016 at 22:29 | history | answered | Thomas Dickey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |