Re: Using telinit {1,3,5} with systemd

On Fri, 24 May 2024 01:15:27 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:

(I was pleasantly surprised to find out that systemd knows about init
runlevels.  Very helpful.)

systemd offers better compatibility with sysvinit than some other
alternative service managers.

Finally, if you want to shutdown the display manager and just use vty's
with getty logins, you could
 
$ telinit 3
 
These runlevels are the same as they were with SysV init on Linux.

I thought, on Debian, the normal multiuser+networking runlevel was 3, not
5.

Another advantage with systemd’s symbolic target names is that they are
self-explanatory and get away from these cryptic and arbitrary numbers.