NAME

rc − command script for auto-reboot and daemons

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rc

DESCRIPTION

Rc is the command script which controls the automatic reboot

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. 

SEE ALSO

init(8), reboot(8)

BUGS

After making changes to the root file system, the system must be rebooted to keep the incore copy of the super-block from corrupting the newly computed super-block.  This is silly.  The system should be fixed so that this super-block is updated in core. 

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  @(#)rc.81.1PreliminaryGER0