[NTLUG:Discuss] Hosed up my system

Johnie Stafford jms at pobox.com
Tue Mar 19 20:26:35 CST 2002


>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:34:45 -0600, "Jack-I-Need-a-Job-Snodgrass" <idiotboy+ntlug at cybermail.net> said:

 j> Not sure if there is a UNIX Standard. The /etc/inittab from RedHat says
 j> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
 j> #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
 j> #   1 - Single user mode
 j> #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
 j> networking)
 j> #   3 - Full multiuser mode
 j> #   4 - unused
 j> #   5 - X11
 j> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
 j> #

I don't think there is a standard. Sun does it a little differently in Solaris:

0 - halt
1 - Single user
2 - Multiuser without applications
3 - Multiuser with applications (oracle, iplanet, etc.)
4 - unused
5 - halt and power off
6 - reboot

Both levels 2 & 3 have X running.

        Johnie






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