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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Using telinit {1,3,5} with systemd
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 01:05:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On 24 May 2024 18:33:22 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<lbc4rhFjnhcU2@mid.individual.net>:

> On Fri, 24 May 2024 17:15:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
> 
>> Wow, I never knew about telinit! That will definitely be handy to
>> remember.
> 
> I knew about it decades ago and had forgotten about it. On Ubuntu the
> man pages says
> 
> "telinit may be used to change the SysV system runlevel. Since the
> concept of SysV runlevels is obsolete the runlevel requests will be
> transparently translated into systemd unit activation requests.
> 
> 1, s, S Change into system rescue mode. This is translated into an
> activation request for rescue.target and is equivalent to systemctl
> rescue."
> 
> Despite the haters systemctl is here to stay. Might as well learn how to
> use it.

I'm not a hater, I just find remembering "telinit 1" easier than trying to
remember whatever systemctl incantation is needed.  (But I'm old school,
so I didn't have to learn it, just know about it.)

-- 
-v