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I am looking at linux startup services, like Cron which runs at level 5 located in init.d, in the startup script I can only see the script file and location of binary file which is executed on startup.
Where can I see the actual source code of these services?
On Debian (or Debian based) systems, you can also
apt-get source <packagename>, assuming you have the appropriatedeb-srcURLs in/etc/apt/sources.list.This works for underprivileged users, it will fetch the source and uncompress it in the current working directory.
To reproduce the builds, its a good idea to have
debhelperinstalled, or let apt satisfy the dependencies automagically by usingapt-get build-dep <packagename>Its a lot more convenient than googling / searching for the source archive that will reproduce the version of the program you want to study or modify.