0 Halt / Shut down All processes are stopped, all filesystems are unmounted, and all users taken offline. Power can now be safely removed.
1 Single user mode Only root allowed login (requires password). All filesystems listed in /etc/fstab are mounted. Limited set of services started.
2-5 Multi-user mode All filesystems listed in /etc/fstab mounted, graphical environment (if installed) brought up. Full standard operational mode.
6 Reboot As with runlevel 0, all processes stopped, all filesystems unmounted, all users taken offline, the box rebooted, and taken to the default runlevel.
Default: /etc/rc2.d/
Cambiar de runlevel:
sudo telinit S (S ϵ {0-6})
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=16fbd610-34e5-4976-91ba-4aa107ab487a ro quiet splash S
K-scripts: detienen un proceso
S-scripts: inician un proceso
Remover servicios:
sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/apache2 ...
/etc/rc0.d/K09apache2
/etc/rc1.d/K09apache2
/etc/rc2.d/S91apache2
/etc/rc3.d/S91apache2
/etc/rc4.d/S91apache2
/etc/rc5.d/S91apache2
/etc/rc6.d/K09apache2
Más infromación:
managing services in Ubuntu

