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

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:03:57 -0600 as excerpted:

> 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?

Yes, it does.  Thanks.

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