Runlevel

[Marius Gedminas]

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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