On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:08:57 -0600, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-12-05 14:58, Wildman via Python-list wrote: >> I there a way to detect what the Linux runlevel is from >> within a Python program? I would like to be able to do >> it without the use of an external program such as 'who' >> or 'runlevel'. > > You can use something like > > https://gist.github.com/likexian/f9da722585036d372dca > > to parse the /var/run/utmp contents. Based on some source-code > scrounging, it looks like you want the first field to be "1" for the > "runlevel" account. To extract the actual runlevel, you can take > the PID value from the second column ("53" in my example here) and > take it's integer value mod 256 (AKA "& 0xff") to get the character > value. So chr(int("53") & 0xff) returns "5" in my case, which is my > runlevel. > > Additional links I found helpful while searching: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/busybox-1.10.1/miscutils/runlevel.c > https://github.com/garabik/python-utmp > > -tkc
That is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you. Now all I have to do is get it to work with Python3. -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 The cow died so I don't need your bull! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
