[ale] How do I get to run level 3? Ubuntu 6.10

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 20:21:59 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:07 -0400, James Taylor wrote:

> I've always been under the impression that runlevel 3 is multiuser
> non-x and runlevel 5 is multi with x.
> Is this not consistently observed? 


It's distribution dependent.  Some use runlevels and others don't use
them at all.  Some use letters for system "states" and numbers for
runlevels.  It all depends on who wrote the program that is sitting
in /sbin/init.  :-)

    ? Mike

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