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CentOS / RHEL 6 : How do I find my current runlevel?

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The output of the runlevel command will indicate your previous and current runlevel separated by a single space. If there was no previous runlevel ‘N‘ will be used as a placeholder.

For example:

# runlevel
N 5

The output above indicates that the current runlevel is 5 and there was no previous runlevel.

Changing current runlevel

To change the runlevel for a system without rebooting or changing the /etc/inittab file, execute the following command as the root user:

# telinit [runlevel_value]

With [runlevel_value] having the following values:

0 — Halt
1 — Single-user mode
2 — Not used (user-definable)
3 — Full multi-user mode
4 — Not used (user-definable)
5 — Full multi-user mode (with an X-based login screen)
6 — Reboot

Filed Under: Linux

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