Why are seemingly unrelated start and stop scripts updated when 'chkconfig --add' is used?
Issue
When adding new start and stop control scripts for a new custom service using chkconfig --add, sometimes seemingly random files in /etc/rcX.d are seen within ls output to have been updated. Why is this?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- RHEL 6
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