# 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)

    BUGS

    Printed 11/26/99	 April 27, 1985                         1

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