[arch-general] How is process loading configured at boot? rc.sysinit & rc.local?

[David Rosenstrauch]

Most people start their daemons in the rc.conf file.

See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rc.conf

DR

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
> 
> 	How is process loading handled at boot in Arch Linux? I found:
> 
> [19:32 archangel:/etc] # ls -1 rc*
> rc.conf
> rc.local
> rc.local.shutdown
> rc.multi
> rc.shutdown
> rc.single
> rc.sysinit
> 
> rc.d:
> <snip>
> 
> 	But before I started hacking things I thought I would ask where I should put
> things generally (rc.local?) and then where to put the services that might need
> to be started earlier than rc.local (rc.sysinit?) I thought I would ask before
> I make a royal fool out of myself. (I like to minimize those times)
> 
> 	Also, I have no problems setting the stuff up by hand, but I also wanted to
> check if there was any type of automated service manager like chkconfig, just
> in case. Thanks.
>