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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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: <1991May4.233932.4815@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 4 May 91 23:39:32 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.024433.10460@srwic.UUCP> <1991Apr25.171617.13505@ssd.kodak.com> <230@harem.clydeunix.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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As quoted from <230@harem.clydeunix.com> by wes@harem.clydeunix.com (Wes Peters):
+---------------
| Not quite.  Actually:
| 	0 = Shutdown
| 	1 = Single-user (roughly)
| 	2 = Normal multi-user
| 	3 = Another multi-user
| 	4 = ?????
| 	5 = Enter monitor program, if present
| 	6 = Halt
+---------------

S is singleuser, 2 is multiuser without networking, 3 is multiuser with
networking, 4 is unused.  5 may or may not be used, depending on Unix version.

On the systems I have seen (Altos System V R3.1 and SCO UNIX) init 1 prepares
the system for singleuser and does an "init S", and init 0 prepares the system
for shutdown and does an "init 6" (which does "/etc/haltsys").

++Brandon
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