So... what's a runlevel?

[James Diehl]

To my understanding, the run level designates a certain type of process that is running, or can be run.  In Fedora, the CLI of the X Window system is run-level 3, and the GUI is run-level 5.  If you open a terminal and startx the X system, check the run levels, it should should 5 in the personal settings; for GUI.  If you change it to 3, and restart the system,  you have CLI only.
 Diehl, James

"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:         OK, I'm seeing references to "runlevels" abounding here and there, but I really don't know what one of those is.  The man page for runlevel(8) isn't particularly helpful.  Is there some succinct reference to what runlevels are, what they mean and why I might change them?
 
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