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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Command to obtain current run level?
Message-ID: <1183@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 03:30:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: mhres.1183
Posted: Wed Aug  5 03:30:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 07:02:01 EDT
References: <241@acich.UUCP>
Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
Lines: 19
Keywords: run level
Summary: who does it

In article <241@acich.UUCP>, steve@acich.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes:
> Is there a shell command (or a system call) in System V UNIX that
> will return the value of the current run state?  I would like to use
> such a feature in some administrative shell scripts on our system.

Try "who -r". It should return a line like

  " .       system boot  Jul 20 14:34    2    0    S"
                                         ^    ^    ^
                                        CRL   #    PRV

with CRL current run level, # the #st time this run level is
invoked, and PRV the previous run level.


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