Runlevel
Marius Gedminas
marius at pov.lt
Sun Jan 27 13:20:27 UTC 2008
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:36:39PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> When I run the runlevel command I get N 2
>
> 0 — Halt
> 1 — Single-user mode
> 2 — Not used (user-definable)
> 3 — Full multi-user mode
> 4 — Not used (user-definable)
> 5 — Full multi-user mode (with an X-based login screen)
> 6 — Reboot
>
> According to the above description 2 means user-definable and if that is the
> case how can i use it
Debian and Ubuntu does not follow this convention and has runlevels 2
through 5 mean the same thing (full multi-user with X).
Sysadmins are free to customise the runlevels to their liking by
manipulating symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/
Marius Gedminas
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