Where are the program calls of the boot process stored

Question

I just wrote a little program which logs all calls of bash during the boot process. This is a part of the output produced:

(root) '/bin/bash-' '-c' 'gzip -d -c /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '-c' 'gzip -d -c /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/../include/euro1.map.gz'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/etc/rc.multi'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng' 'start'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/etc/rc.d/dbus' 'start'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/etc/rc.d/network' 'start'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks'
(root) '/bin/bash-' '/etc/rc.d/netfs' 'start'

First column is the user, 2nd the program called (I only log bash here), 3rd column are the arguments. Now assume I want to replace one of these calls: Where can I find them? I assume there must be some program/script/data file which has all these calls in it?!?

Answer 1

For Arch, the boot process uses init, which reads configuration from /etc/initab. Customization may also be made in /etc/rc.conf, but I think you'll have to dig into the init scripts specified in /etc/initab. See Arch Boot Process for more information.