Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:30761 comp.unix.misc:1369 comp.unix.sysv386:7350 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!bernina!prl From: prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: What is it? (was Re: Current Run-Level: How can you tell?) Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 17:59:00 GMT References: <1991Apr23.024433.10460@srwic.UUCP> <1991Apr24.150645.1135@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1991Apr25.120917.1626@virtech.uucp> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: etzj-gw dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes: >I use a Sun system, and I've never heard of "Run-Level." >What is it? Since I looked it up, it seems that it's a SysV term describing the current state of init. I've been told that BSD-derived Unixes don't have this, but they do have two (major) states in init, which exactly correspond to two of the SysV run levels. If I move into pedantic mode, Sun (and other BSD-ish) Unices do have a run level, and the two run levels are single-user and multiuser mode. And there is not an easy way to discover which mode you are in. -- Peter Lamb uucp: uunet!mcsun!ethz!prl eunet: prl@iis.ethz.ch Tel: +411 256 5241 Integrated Systems Laboratory ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich