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From: ghe@physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
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Subject: Re: Current Run-Level: How can you tell?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:46:35 GMT
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In article <z.8Goc1y1@cs.psu.edu>, schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
|> 
|> Ernie Englehart writes:
|> | The command "who -r" does the trick.
|> 
|> Bizarre.  Why stick that in the "who" command?  I guess "cat" and "ls"
|> have too many options and "who" needed some... :-)

I think the reason is `who' opens the utmp file and the run level 
infomation is stored in utmp (at least on the sys V).

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  Guangliang He
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