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Subject:	Re: init-config has incorrect path for /etc/rc.d/rc [FIX]
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> The path to /etc/rc.d/rc in /usr/bin/init-config (initscripts-0.9-4)
> is incorrect -- it is given as ${SYSCONFDIR}/rc (where SYSCONFDIR=/etc).
> That path should be ${SYSCONFDIR}/rc.d/rc .  This will fix it:

or is it a case someone broke/removed the symlink from /etc/rc to /etc/rc.d/rc? Or more correctly /etc/rc -> /etc/init.d/rc.
/etc/rc dates back to SunOS v4 at least. Similarly /etc/init and /sbin/init.

/etc/rc.d (and children like /etc/rc[0-6].d) is more of a "expression of state" directory. The actual scripts are supposed to live in /etc/init.d/. 

Your local /etc/inittab should be FULL of references to /etc/init.d/rc like so:

# Default runlevel
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

# Runlevel scripts
l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6

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