Great! Thanks Nick. That is just the sort of information I was looking for.
Obviously I need to get a bit more used to where to find documentation on gentoo. I am used to being able to use 'man -k' to find most system documentation on BSD, with the addition of 'texinfo' and 'locate' since experimenting with linux... Is there a 'package' that will make all the standard documentation available on my local system, so that I have it when offline? Anyway, I have read through the document that you have pointed me at, and created a separate runlevel for what I know as run-level-5 as follows: cd /tmp/runlevels mkdir fullxdm for i in `ls default`; do rc-update add $i fullxdm; done But I am still left with a couple of questions.... Where the document desribes making the 'offline' runlevel, I would have expected that to have included instructions to update /etc/inittab so that the new level would be associated with a numeric runlevel 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 What is does show is how to specify a new 'runlevel name' as a soflevel kernel option in /boot/grub/grub.conf - which is apparently bypassing the numeric runlevel specifications, and seems to result in the system starting in a runlevel which, if 'telinit' is used to change to something else, there is no way to use 'telinit' to return to the initial level. And it is not clear to me what 'who -r' should return after booting with a softlevel kernel option in this way. Can a numeric runlevel be specified as a softlevel? One other question that springs to mind, related to the 'offline' example in the runlevel documentation - what is the 'approved' way of handling the situation where a different configuration is required, rather than just addition or deletion of a complete package? The typical example is a laptop used at home and work, with different networking configuration (IP/domain/nameserver...) required for each? Regards, DigbyT On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:56:44PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2004.3/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4 -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
