On Monday 16 July 2007 06:08:50 pm Jack wrote:
"modern" debian based distros runlevel 2-5 are identical "out of the box". I believe that it defaults to runlevel 2. So I'm surprised that you're actually in runlevel 5. Are you sure of this?
On a real SysV system, level 5 would be the GUI+networking level, so when one sees a fully on-line GUI on Linux, one assumes it's in runlevel 5. Here's the standard table:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
So when someone talks about switching to runlevel three, they mean shut down the GUI completely, but still have full networking.