/etc/inittab

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See
man inittab
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Initscripts#How_init_w...
http://linux.overshoot.tv/wiki/openrc

/etc/inittab is used by init. Depending on how the system is configured, it then delegates to OpenRC to start services defined by it. See http://linux.overshoot.tv/etc/runlevels .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel
https://wiki.debian.org/RunLevel
http://www.linfo.org/runlevel_def.html
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lpic1-101-3/