# Exploring Runlevels

DevFeed: [Exploring Runlevels](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/exploring-runlevels-40686.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/exploring-runlevels/>)

Published: 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/service.md>), [execution](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/execution.md>)

Tags: [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [operating-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operating-systems.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>), [service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/service.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explaining Linux runlevels as operating-system service configurations. It describes conventional runlevel purposes, how to inspect and change the current runlevel, and how init scripts and symbolic links control service startup, shutdown, and execution order.

## Source excerpt

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