telinit

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
telinit 8
telinit Change SysV runlevel
`telinit OPTIONS COMMAND`

## Description

`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 Since the concept of SysV runlevels is obsolete the runlevel requests will be transparently translated into systemd unit activation requests.

## Options

The following options are understood:

`--help`

  Prints a short help text and exits.

`--no-wall`

  Don't send wall message before reboot/halt/power-off.

The following commands are understood:

`0`

  Power-off the machine. This is translated into an activation request for `poweroff.target` and is equivalent to `systemctl poweroff`.

`6`

  Reboot the machine. This is translated into an activation request for `reboot.target` and is equivalent to `systemctl reboot`.

`2`
`3`
`4`
`5`

  Change the SysV runlevel. This is translated into an activation request for `runlevel2.target`, `runlevel3.target`, ... and is equivalent to `systemctl isolate runlevel2.target`, `systemctl isolate runlevel3.target`, ...

`1`
`s`
`S`

  Change into system rescue mode. This is translated into an activation request for `rescue.target` and is equivalent to `systemctl rescue`.

`q`
`Q`

  Reload daemon configuration. This is equivalent to `systemctl daemon-reload`.

`u`
`U`

  Serialize state, reexecute daemon and deserialize state again. This is equivalent to `systemctl daemon-reexec`.

## Exit status

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

## Notes

This is a legacy command available for compatibility only. It should not be used anymore, as the concept of runlevels is obsolete.

## See Also

systemd 1, systemctl 1, wall 1