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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd Feb 22, 2008 +.Dd October 27, 2008 .Dt RC 8 SMM .Os OpenRC .Sh NAME @@ -60,18 +60,27 @@ sysinit always runs when the host first starts should not be run again. Generally the only services you should add to the boot runlevel are those which deal with the mounting of filesystems, set the initial state of attached peripherals and logging. -Coldplugged services are added to the boot runlevel by the system. -All services in the boot runlevel are automatically included in all other -runlevels except for those listed here. +Hotplugged services are added to the boot runlevel by the system. +All services in the boot and sysinit runlevels are automatically included +in all other runlevels except for those listed here. .It Ar single -Stops all services and enters single user mode. +Stops all services except for those in the sysinit runlevel. .It Ar reboot Changes to the single runlevel and then reboots the host. .It Ar shutdown Changes to the single runlevel and then halts the host. .El +.Pp +You should not call any of these runlevels yourself. +Instead you should use +.Xr init 8 +and +.Xr shutdown 8 +and let them call these special runlevels. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr rc-status 8 , -.Xr rc-update 8 +.Xr rc-update 8 , +.Xr init 8 , +.Xr shutdown 8 .Sh AUTHORS .An Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> |