Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

[Holly Bostick]

Neil Bothwick schreef:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
>
>
>> The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command
>>  prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can
>> edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry).
>
>
> It's the normal (root) shell prompt. You can use the rc command to
> switch runlevels after booting. To use your example, you're using
> your laptop on the train, with the out runlevel because there's no
> network. Then you arrive at home or the office and want to switch to
> the relevant profile and start the services, so you run "rc home".

oh, DUH! (What is wrong with my brain??) Now I see what devs (and you)
mean when they say that Gentoo is heavily customized. If I was still
running Slack, I would have immediately realized the similarity between
running 'rc softlevel' in the console, and running 'init 3' in the
console (so I would have remembered that it's perfectly possible and
feasible to change runlevels from the command prompt). But clearly, 'the
Gentoo way' is slowly erasing 'the Linux way' from my mind, not
dissimilar to the way that I often now can remember the word for a
concept easier in Dutch than I can in English.

It's perfectly normal, and not really a bad thing, but it's disturbing
when it pops up in your face like that.

>
>
>> I don't know how you define rc.conf files for softlevels, since I
>> don't need softlevels, but I have seen discussions of this on the
>> list in the past. There's probably a Wiki entry on the subject as
>> well.
>
>
> There doesn't appear to be anything on the wiki, which is a shame,
> because this looks a useful feature.

Volunteers? :)

But isn't it in the docs somewhere, or has that not yet been written
either (that would be odd, especially given all the updates that the
Documentation team has been doing lately)?

Holly
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