cupsd or cupsd.sh, that is the question

[Lowell Gilbert]

Fritz Heinrichmeyer <Fritz.Heinrichmeyer at FernUni-Hagen.de> writes:

> Hello, i thought it is a convention to install boot scripts with
> ending .sh? At least cupsd is the first script i notice that does not
> follow this convention.

"man rc"

In particular, note "If the script has a .sh suffix then it is sourced
directly into the current shell," but there is a fair amount more
information beyond that.