What is the current runlevel?

• who -r

or

• runlevel(8)

Change to a different runlevel

• telinit <runlevel>

What do the different runlevels represent?

On Debian:

 * 0            System Halt
 * 1            Single user
 * 2            Full multi-user mode (Default)
 * 3-5          Same as 2
 * 6            System Reboot

RedHat Derived Distros:

 * 0            halt,
 * 1/S          single user,
 * 2            boot without networking or X
 * 3            boot without X, but with networking
 * 4            Unused
 * 5            boot with networking+X (Default)
 * 6            reboot

Excellent Runlevels Guide

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/212

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