Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:30777 comp.unix.misc:1374 comp.unix.sysv386:7371 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!dkeisen From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) 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: <1991Apr26.163616.15442@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 Apr 91 16:36:16 GMT References: <1991Apr25.120917.1626@virtech.uucp> Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc. Lines: 21 In article prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb) writes: >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. > I don't know about BSD, but on our Xenix box "who am i" is an easy way to see whether the system is single-user. -- Dave Eisen dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU 1101 San Antonio Raod, Suite 102 (Gang-of-Four is being taken off the net) Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 967-5644