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telinit
telinit [option] [runlevel]
System administration command. Signal init to change the system's runlevel. telinit is actually just a link to init, the ancestor of all processes.
Option
Send SIGKILL seconds after SIGTERM. Default is 20.
Runlevels
The default runlevels vary from distribution to distribution, but these are standard:
Halt the system.
Single user.
Reboot the system.
Process only entries in /etc/inittab that are marked with runlevel a, b, or c.
Reread /etc/inittab.
Check the /etc/inittab file for runlevels on your system.
