What runlevel is the machine at right now? Posted on 2012 August 1 by jontas In order to figure out the current runlevel the following may be used $ runlevel N 2$ runlevel N 2 or ~$ who -r run-level 2 2012-07-30 11:19~$ who -r run-level 2 2012-07-30 11:19 In this example the machine is at runlevel 2.