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On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:58:24PM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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> To turn off the pcmcia service in slackware, try this:
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> chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
> 
> To kill it without rebooting, do this:
> 
> . /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
> 
> Note the period at the beginning, it is required.

Why is that first period necessary? I've seen that from time to time in
Slackware startup scripts but I never knew why and when I've added
commands to my own startup scripts, I usually leave it out with no known
effects.

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