RUNLEVEL(8)

NAME
runlevel -- find the current and previous system runlevel.

SYNOPSIS
runlevel

DESCRIPTION
Runlevel prints the previous and current system runlevel on it's standard output, separated by a single space. If there is no previous system runlevel, the letter N will be printed instead.

Runlevel can be used in rc scripts as a substitute for the System-V who -r. However, in newer version of init this information is also available in the environment variables RUNLEVEL and PREVLEVEL.

OPTIONS
None.

SEE ALSO
init(8).

AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl