Standard semantics of Runlevels
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Chapter 6. Standard semantics of Runlevels

These vary by distribution, so this is an incomplete list of the most common Linux® distributions. If you have additional distributions, please email the author and have the information added to this manual.

Red Hat®
Runlevel 0:

halt (shuts down the machine)

Runlevel 1:

Single user mode.

Runlevel 2:

Multi user text only, without NFS.

Runlevel 3:

Multi user text-only, with full networking.

Runlevel 4:

Not used.

Runlevel 5:

Multi user X11 with full networking.

Runlevel 6:

Reboot

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