RC(8)                   GENIX Programmer's Manual                   RC(8)



      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.


























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