运行级别对于系统使用来说应该是一个很重要的基本概念，原来一直使用Linux，现在又用Solaris和AIX，一下模糊了，他们对runlevel的定义有些许不同，现本人搜集了哈，做个比较。
 
runlevelLinuxSolaris
0halt (Do NOT set initdefault to /etc/inittal "initlevel" entry)halt
1Single user modeSingle user mode
2Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)multiuser, unshare net
3Full multiuser modemultiuser, deafult
4unusedunused
5X11halt, power off
6reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)reboot to level 3
SNoneequal “init 1”, “boot -s”
      AIX:
      "AIX does not follow the System V R4 (SVR4) run level specification, with run levels from 0 to 9 available, as well as from a to c. 0 and 1 are reserved, 2 is the default normal multiuser mode and run levels from 3 to 9 are free to be defined by the administrator. Run levels from a to c allow the execution of processes in that run level without killing processes started in another."
      本来想把上个表格做得更全些的，结果在google上一搜，晕！人家 [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel[/url]做得之巴适！我晕！真是众人拾柴火焰高啊！大家还是有空多去看看wikipedia吧！