How to Change Runlevels (targets) in SystemD.md 982 B


Title: "How to Change Runlevels (targets) in SystemD" Date: 2017-09-24 23:10:00 Categories: [os] Tags: [runlevels, systemd]

Authors: sedlav

In this article, we will explain how to change runlevels (targets) with systemd. Before we move any further, let’s briefly under the relationship between runlevels numbers and targets.

  • Run level 0 is matched by poweroff.target (and runlevel0.target is a symbolic link to poweroff.target).
  • Run level 1 is matched by rescue.target (and runlevel1.target is a symbolic link to rescue.target).
  • Run level 3 is emulated by multi-user.target (and runlevel3.target is a symbolic link to multi-user.target).
  • Run level 5 is emulated by graphical.target (and runlevel5.target is a symbolic link to graphical.target).
  • Run level 6 is emulated by reboot.target (and runlevel6.target is a symbolic link to reboot.target).
  • Emergency is matched by emergency.target.

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