Translations:Handbook:Parts/Working/Initscripts/12/en

When all referenced scripts are executed, init continues with running the scripts that have a symbolic link to them in. Again, it will use the alphabetical order to decide what script to run first, unless a script has dependency information in it, in which case the order is changed to provide a valid start-up sequence. The latter is also the reason why commands used during the installation of Gentoo Linux used default, as in.