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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Determining the current runlevel
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, YoYo Siska wrote:

> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:21:25 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
>>
>>
>>> # cat /var/lib/init.d/softlevel
>>> default
>>
>>
>> That's it! Many thanks.
>
> I usualy do:
>
> source /etc/conf.d/rc
> rl=`cat "$svcdir/softlevel"`
>
> just to be sure... ;)
> or directly
>
> source /sbin/functions.sh
> rl=`cat "$svcdir/softlevel"`
>
> functions.sh do source the config and have some functions that can be
> handy... (einfo, ewarn, eeror to begin with...)
> -- 
>
But don't these just report what it would be if no on changed it? If you
force a runlevel change after the system has booted, is there any way to
find that out afterwards?

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