Facility names

Facility names that begin with a dollar sign ('$') are system facility names, defined by the LSB, and MUST be provided by distributions. LSB applications should not provide system facilities. This document defines the following system facility names:

$local_fsall local filesystems are mounted
$networklow level networking (ethernet card; may imply PCMCIA running)
$namednamed is operational
$remote_fsall remote filesystems are mounted (note in some cases /usr may be remote. Most applications that care will probably require both $local_fs and $remote_fs)
$syslogsystem logger is operational
$netdaemonsall network daemons are running

Other system facilities may be defined by other LSB applications.

Facility names may also be init.d script names, although LSB applications SHOULD NOT use script names, especially script names which are provided by distributions, as these may not necessarily be the same across different distributions.