When Ubuntu starts-up?

[Cameron Hutchison]

Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> writes:

>On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:20 +1000, GaryT wrote:
>> Would someone please point me in the right direction.
>> 
>> I want to establish a list of the programs that run as a particular 
>> Ubuntu installation goes through its start-up routine.  Is there an 
>> equivalent to the MS Windows registry, tucked away somewhere in Ubuntu?

>Luckily not, the non GUI stuff is in human readable form.
>Have a look at /etc/inittab and /etc/rc* . You may need to
>read some manpages to understand what's going on.

Now that Ubuntu uses upstart instead of a SysV init, /etc/inittab is no
longer used. Instead the files in /etc/event.d list what services run
and on what events they start.

At the moment though, most of what upstart does is to run the scripts in
/etc/rc?.d, so that's still the right place to see what gets started.