[plug] Help with Gentoo rc scripts wanted

[Richard Meyer]

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 20:24 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Its a little different to others distros: the standard runlevel is 3 or
> "default" (you can name runlevels).  X is just a service that happens to
> run in whatever run level you select.
> 
> "/etc/init.d/xdm start" starts X
> "rc-update add xdm default" adds it to the default runlevel.  In this
> case, the initscripts are set (standard) so X is the last service
> started as the default runlevel is processed.
> 
> There's some good docs on this on the gentoo website.  Named runlevels
> are useful for things like alternative configurations (like home or work
> configs on a laptop)
> 
> BillK

Thanks, Bill, I was working from a document that came with the DVD -
seems as though the document wasn't as good as it could've been.

Seems I have a lot to learn (and unlearn)
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>