Newbie Linux Question: rc.sysinit.author

[rfc]

Could someone explain the relationship between rc.sysinit and rc.sysinit.author? I did a search in Google on rc.sysinit.author, and all the links point to here, lol, so I think it's a tivo related thing.

I know that rc.sysinit controls what loads and runs on startup, but do not understand the relationship between the two. TIA

[eastwind]

Could someone explain the relationship between rc.sysinit and rc.sysinit.author? I did a search in Google on rc.sysinit.author, and all the links point to here, lol, so I think it's a tivo related thing.

I know that rc.sysinit controls what loads and runs on startup, but do not understand the relationship between the two. TIA
If the file exists it gets called at the end of rc.sysinit. If you cat the rc.sysinit file you will see the line that calls it.

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