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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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> > The files generally have fairly clear names, and they all live in
> > /etc/init.d.  The rc* directories only contain symlinks to the file
> > in init.d, and the symlinks are clearly named.
> 
> Yuk. One sub-directory of /etc being used just to have symlinks to
> another sub-directory of /etc?

Old SCO had hard links and it was a big problem because they had a bad
trend to restore as separate files from backups. So symbolic links
look better.

		Serge Babkin

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