In what directory are my init file located?

**George Harrison** · 08-08-2005

I'm trying to install VMware right now and it needs to know the directory where I keep my init files, /sbin/init is not a directory so I dunno what to do now. Does anyone know what the default directory is that the init files are being kept. Any help would be much appreciated (especially quick replies) thank you.

EDIT: here's VMware asking me

Code:

What is the directory that contains the init directories &#40;rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/&#41;?

and here's whereis

Code:

$ whereis init
init&#58; /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-ARCH/init /sbin/init /usr/man/man8/init.8.gz

I put in the /usr/src.... into VMware and it says

Code:

What is the directory that contains the init directories &#40;rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/&#41;? /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-ARCH/init

The path "/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-ARCH/init" is a directory which does not contain
a rc0.d directory.

**budman7** · 08-08-2005

/etc contains the init files.

**psic** · 08-09-2005

Look for the /etc/rcX.d, where X is from 0 to 6.

**Giro** · 08-09-2005

The init scripts are normally located under /etc/init.d/ the runlevel directorys /etc/rc*.d/ just contain symlinks to the scripts located under /etc/init.d/

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