System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that controls the booting and shutdown of your system. These support a number of system runlevels, each one associated with a specific set of utilities. For example, normal system runlevel is 2, which starts a getty on virtual consoles tty1 - tty6. Runlevel 3 starts xdm. Runlevel 0 shuts down the system. Please see the individual man pages for: inittab, initscript, halt, init, killproc, killall5, powerd, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, and telinit.
This package is required for proper management of your Linux system. Remove only if you are sure you know what you are doing.