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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
