Current Run-Level: How can you tell?

[Dick Dunn]

dag at fciva.FRANKCAP.COM (Daniel A. Graifer) writes:

> It may depend on your version of unix, but in my port of SysV 3.1.2
> "who -r" reports various things about init including the current run
> level...

This is a dependable SysVism.

> I don't know how you would do it from 'c'.

See utmp.h.  If the ut_type field is RUN_LVL, the string "run-level n"
where n is the current run level, is in the ut_line field.
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