4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat8/rc.0

RC(8)                                                                    RC(8)


NAME
       rc - command script for auto-reboot and daemons

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/rc
       /etc/rc.local

DESCRIPTION
       Rc  is  the  command  script  which  controls  the automatic reboot and
       rc.local is the script holding commands which are pertinent only  to  a
       specific site.

       When  an  automatic reboot is in progress, rc is invoked with the argu‐
       ment autoboot and runs a fsck with option -p to ‘‘preen’’ all the disks
       of minor inconsistencies resulting from the last system shutdown and to
       check for serious inconsistencies caused by hardware or software  fail‐
       ure.   If  this auto-check and repair succeeds, then the second part of
       rc is run.

       The second part of rc, which is run after a  auto-reboot  succeeds  and
       also  if  rc  is  invoked  when  a  single  user  shell terminates (see
       init(8)), starts all the daemons on the system, preserves editor  files
       and  clears  the  scratch directory /tmp.  Rc.local is executed immedi‐
       ately before any other commands after a successful fsck.  Normally, the
       first  commands  placed in the rc.local file define the machine’s name,
       using hostname(1), and save any possible core  image  that  might  have
       been  generated as a result of a system crash, savecore(8).  The latter
       command is included in the rc.local file because the directory in which
       core dumps are saved is usually site specific.

SEE ALSO
       init(8), reboot(8), savecore(8)

BUGS
4th Berkeley Distribution       April 27, 1985                           RC(8)