[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 for the info, Bill. I will certainly check it out. Seems like
there are more differences than similarities between Gentoo and the
other distros I liked (Mdk and SUSE).

Thanks for the help.
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