Question

What is the location any file with the name "cron"?

I need it for centos os and it doesn't have locate command installed

Where does the "rc" link, in /etc/, link to?

I wanted to knonw is there a command to show what it is linked to?

Answer 1

For centos os, The location of cron files for the users is /var/spool/cron directory.

Basically, rc stands for run commands.

/etc means a central location for all your configuration files are located. In other words, it links to where certain files are located.

/etc/init.

To avoid script duplication, the files in the rc#. d/directories are actually symbolic links to script files located in the /etc/init.d/directory. Every service installed on the system installs a script in this directory which can be used to control that service.

Is command

Open a terminal window and move to the directory. Type the command Is-la . This shows all the files in the directory even if they are hidden. It will show the files, link and directories. The files that starts with I are your symbolic link files. FIND command - it has the ability in which one can search any kind of files, directories, link.