Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:06:44 -0700
From: Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3
Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:07:08 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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.