NAME

       telinit - Change SysV runlevel

SYNOPSIS

       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 Since the concept of SysV runlevels is obsolete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
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --no-wall
           Do not 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       of runlevels is obsolete.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)

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