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Subject: Re: init-config has incorrect path for /etc/rc.d/rc [FIX]
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On 2026-01-14 10:35, Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
> My previous reply was slightly botched (please, thunderbird, let me compose 
> using a real editor, and don't reformat).
> 
> The first few lines should have been:
> 
> On 1/13/26 22:09, matthew patton wrote:
>> 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.
> Removed, I believe, not broke.
> See below re executables in /etc .
> 
> That "below" refers to the my previous reply.

Package sysvinit installs init-config to set up /etc/rc used by its utilities.
Package initscripts installs /etc/postinstall/initscripts.sh{,.done} to set up
/etc/rc.d/rc# directories.
As that package has not been updated for years, neither the preremove nor 
postinstall scripts should have been run since install.
Package chkconfig installs the utility to manage the daemon init scripts, 
assuming the appropriate comment keyword lines at the top of the init scripts.

Cygwin daemons normally provide *-config scripts which setup daemons to run as 
MS-Windows services under cygrunsrv.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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