Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > sysvinit

\"System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that controlsthe booting and shutdown of your system. These support a number ofsystem runlevels, each one associated with a specific set of utilities.For example, normal system runlevel is 2, which starts a getty onvirtual consoles tty1 - tty6. Runlevel 3 starts xdm. Runlevel 0 shutsdown the system. Please see the individual man pages for: inittab,initscript, halt, init, killproc, killall5, powerd, reboot, runlevel,shutdown, and telinit.\"