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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:48:29
Message-Id: pan$92a69$819486e$f3c278cf$c228954a@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC by William Hubbs
1 William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:03:57 -0600 as excerpted:
2
3 > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:53:59PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
4 >> William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:23:07 -0600 as excerpted:
5 >>
6 >>> There are reasons to run the rc binary directly; this is how you
7 >>> should be changing runlevels.
8 >>
9 >> ???
10 >>
11 >> init 9 (or telinit 9, yes, I have a runlevel 9, basic, just gpm as it
12 >> happens) isn't appropriate?
13 >
14 > Well, I have to qualify what I said.
15 >
16 > There are two "runlevels" you have to worry about.
17 > The OpenRC runlevels are named; you can switch between these using rc
18 > directly, for example:
19 >
20 > rc default
21 > rc single
22 > rc nonetwork
23 >
24 > The sysvinit runlevels are the numbered ones, and these are mapped to
25 > things to run, like 3 is mapped to /sbin/rc default. I believe runlevel
26 > 3 is mapped to other things in inittab, so, I guess the best answer is,
27 > it depends on what you are wanting to change. Does that make sense?
28
29 Yes, it does. Thanks.
30
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