Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 13:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Level 0 is shutdown
> Level 1 is single user
> Level 2 is multi user
> Level 3 is multi user with networking
> Level 4 is not used
> Level 5 is GUI
> Level 6 is reboot

Your list matches

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel#Linux_Standard_Base_specification>

which shows what LSB defines for runlevels, which I believe is derived

from Red Hat.

IIRC, it was the same in Unix Version 7, which Kernighan — or was it Johnson or Richie? — said was an improvement on all of its successors. And in BSD and SunOS and Solaris.