I didn't mean to imply that gentoo didn't support runlevels.
It has both named runlevels and the traditional numeric
runlevels which are layered on top of them via a table in
/etc/inittab. The default runlevel is specified numerically
as in:
id:3:initdefault:
and can be controlled numerically by telinit(1), as well as
by the gentoo specific name as you mentioned.
However the default installation procedure leaves everything in
a single runlevel named 'default'. What I meant was that there
appears to be no standard for distributing services amoungst
different runlevels in gentoo.
Consequently I have my inittab runlevel table setup as follows:
l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc fullxdm
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
where my 'default' corresponds to the traditional full networking without
xdm, so that I can use the same runlevel control commands on gentoo as
I use on my non gentoo (Linux/BSD/Unix) boxes.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:30:00AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:05:16 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> > Gentoo doesn't seem to have defined a standard way of maintaining
> > different runlevels,
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4
>
> runlevels are defined, by name not number, in /etc/runlevels. You can
> choose the runlevel at boot time with the softlevel= kernel option, or
> switch at any time with the rc command.
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