Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:31009 comp.unix.misc:1407 comp.unix.sysv386:7706 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!ico!rcd From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) 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: <1991May3.185400.4685@ico.isc.com> Date: 3 May 91 18:54:00 GMT References: <1991Apr25.120917.1626@virtech.uucp> <1991May3.080600.6156@ukpoit.co.uk> Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO Lines: 26 alan@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. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.