Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:53:59PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:23:07 -0600 as excerpted:
> 
> >  There are reasons to run the rc binary directly; this is how you should
> >  be changing runlevels.
> 
> ???
> 
> init 9 (or telinit 9, yes, I have a runlevel 9, basic, just gpm as it 
> happens) isn't appropriate?

Well, I have to qualify what I said.

There are two "runlevels" you have to worry about.
The OpenRC runlevels are named; you can switch between these using rc
directly, for example:

rc default
rc single
rc nonetwork

The sysvinit runlevels are the numbered ones, and these are mapped to
things to run, like 3 is mapped to /sbin/rc default. I believe runlevel
3 is mapped to other things in inittab, so, I guess the best answer is,
it depends on what you are wanting to change. Does that make sense?

William


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