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I'm hoping someone can throw light on this puzzling problem...

I've just installed Slackware 96 off the Infomagic Sept. CDs.

Being the type who likes playing around, I started to look at the startup
scripts in /etc/rc.d.  But after a little experimentation, I'm very confused. 
It appears that init is not using the runlevel 3 script (rc.M) from /etc/rc.d.
 No matter how I modify this script, the changes are not reflected at boot-up.
 And looking at the original script - it definitely was never executed.  Yet
init is definitely running *some* multi-user startup script from somewhere on
the system.  I've checked inittab - and it says runlevel 3 (the default
runlevel) starts /etc/rc.d/rc.M.

Anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening here?  Does init (I'm
assuming slackware still uses the SysV init) still use inittab in /etc? Am I
just losing it :-) ?

Any help would be appreciated.

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