2.11BSD#431 - /usr/man/cat8/rc.0

RC(8)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		    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 per-
     tinent only to a specific site.

     When an automatic reboot is in progress, rc is invoked with
     the argument 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 failure.  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 sys-
     tem, preserves editor files and clears the scratch directory
     /tmp. Rc.local is executed immediately before any other com-
     mands 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)

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