Manage Default Target

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Default target tasks examples

Default target 1

| Set the default target to boot into X Window level (previously level 5).

It is simple task configuring systemd properly:

# systemctl set-default graphical.target

We can also check if it succeeded with:

# systemctl get-default

Additional comment:

Here is the list of all targets in systemd:

• 0 poweroff.target
• 1 rescue.target
• 2 multi-user.target
• 3 multi-user.target
• 4 multi-user.target
• 5 graphical.target
• 6 reboot.target

Some time ago a file /etc/inittab was used to specify default system level however now it is deprecated and does not work.

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