symbolic links should not be followed in an attempt to work out the name
of the service we are running. Also, @sysconfdir@/conf.d should be tried
as a backup directory for configuration files.
I would like to thank Robin Johnson for his input on this change.
X-Gentoo-Bug: 350910
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350910