>     I never did figure out how find out the current run level in Linux.
>
>$ uname -a
>Linux msd 2.2.0-final #11 Thu Jun 10 19:17:10 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
>$ ps aux | grep init
>root         1  0.0  0.1   804   416  ?  S   Oct 19   0:03 init [5] 
>$ 

$ uname -a
Linux nessie.usanetworks.com 2.0.36 #1 Wed Feb 17 19:45:41 EST 1999 i686 unknown
$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
release 5.1 (Manhattan)
$ runlevel
N 3
$ 

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