On 05/09/2010 01:22 PM, Christopher Harvey wrote: > I ran cat /sbin/rc-update and the script is copyright gentoo foundation, > so I'm asking here if there is a programmatic interface to the script. > I'd rather avoid parsing ascii to try to interpret the rc-update state. > (This is for work on ventoo for gsoc) > Thanks. > Take a look at what openrc offers. In general when developing things you should be looking at the status in ~arch instead of stable. In operc rc-update is binary: $ file /sbin/rc-update /sbin/rc-update: symbolic link to `rc' $ file /sbin/rc /sbin/rc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped Regards, Petteri