On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I misread that last line a number of times. I spent several hours trying
> to read up on runlevels today. Mangling my college math of >50 yrs past,
> the vector space of my goals is not spanned by run levels. A permutation
> of runlevels, user permissions, and group permissions might span the space
> but would not be orthogonal.

   man inittab

   "NAME
        inittab  -  format of the inittab file used by the sysv-compatible
        init process

   DESCRIPTION
        The inittab file describes which processes are started at bootup and
        during normal operation (e.g. /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/init.d/rc,
        gettys...). Init(8) distinguishes multiple runlevels, each of which
        can have its own set of processes that are started. Valid runlevels
        are 0-6 plus A, B, and C for ondemand entries. An entry in the
        inittab file has the following format:"

... and so on.

Rich
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