bsd man page for rc

RC(8)							      System Manager'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 pertinent only to a spe-
       cific 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 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)