how to view the current runlevel in hp-ux

[Mark J. Sewhuk]

Commands who -r and getrunlvl will return the run level of init. IF you are fully booting a system up by not interupting boot at ISL/EFI the return will always be a 3 (or what ever is defined in /etc/inittab. If you bring a system down to level 1 or 2 or S
these commands will show that run level.

It is a bit strange but when the rc1.d and rc2.d scripts are executed they are techincally running at run level 3. If you want to know what stage of startup a system is at I have used the following logic in the rc scripts


RUN_LEVEL=$(echo $0 | awk -F/ '{print $3}')

This should return the directory the script is running from .

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Senthil,

who -r will show you the current run levels of HP-UX. HPUX has the following run levels:

0--System halted
S--Single-User mode, booted to system console only, with only root filesystem mounted (as read-only)
s--Single-User mode, identical to S except the current terminal acts as the system console
1--Single-User mode with local filesystems mounted (read-write)
2--Multi-User mode with most daemons started and Common Desktop Environment launched
3--Identical to runlevel 2 with NFS exported
4--Multi-User mode with VUE started instead of CDE
5, 6--Not used/User-definable

Rgds-Kranti

[Dennis Handly]

>Kranti: who -r will show you the current run levels of HP-UX.

Again I suggest you read all the replies so you know that "who -r" is broken and doesn't work.

[F Verschuren]

runlevels are not inported, I can stop everyting till runlevel 1 whitout changing the runlevel.

if the stop start scripts are used you can check the /etc/rc.log and the old log.
the last entery is the last this that is stopped/started.
don't worry about the run level, yust see what processes/deamons are running...

why:
if you stop everyting till run level 2, it will not look the same as you start everyting untill level 2, why, yous stop scrips will not stop everyting...

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

>Dennis:Again I suggest you read all the replies so you know that "who -r" is broken and doesn't work.

So do you mean, who -r is not a guaranteed command to know, it is not dynamic response , because it just read from file and if it files is not guaranteed situation when it read.

[Dennis Handly]

>Hakki: So do you mean, who -r is not a guaranteed command to know, it is not dynamic response, because it just read from file

See links above. It reads it from utmp(4) and that only has a value if 3 or larger. It may have smaller values if you use init(1m) to reduce the run level.

[Jerry Jiangwei]

Try with command - getrunlvl

bash-4.0# getrunlvl
New_level 3 Old_level S

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

>Jerry: getrunlvl

Check this link out for getrunlvl ,you can see what Dennis exactly want to say;

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=217851&admit=109447626+1257761270117+28353475

[Pete Randall]

JRF:

> Does anyone READ what has already been posted? Endlessly repeating the same answer adds NOTHING!


They must read it, Jim. These morons wouldn't know the answer otherwise!


Pete

[Suraj K Sankari]

JRF:

> Does anyone READ what has already been posted? Endlessly repeating the same answer adds NOTHING!

That is the reasion I told to Senthil please close the thread once he got the correct answer.

Suraj