What is it? (was Re: Current Run-Level: How can you tell?)

[Dick Dunn]

alan at ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes about run levels:

> As with most unix things it really depends on how you've configured it

Yes, but there's a strong enough set of conventions in SysVland that it
would be foolish to scramble them around--all you'll do is confuse people.

Alan lists a set of run-level assignments I've never seen before, without
saying what version of UNIX uses them.  It's certainly not SysV...which
confuses the issue since one of the newsgroups in the list is a SysV
group.

> 0 == Single user
More conventionally, 0 is shutdown.

> 1 == Multi user (no networking)
If 0 is used for shutdown, 1 is normally single-user, and 2 is multi-user
with no networking; then
> 3 == Multi user (with networking)
as Alan says.

> 6 == Shutdown
More conventionally, 6 is shutdown and reboot.
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