RC(8)                   COMMAND REFERENCE                   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 specific site.

     When an automatic reboot is in progress, rc is invoked with
     the argument autoboot. If the file /fastboot exists, it
     indicates that the disk check (see fsck(8)) run at the last
     system shutdown (see shutdown(8)) was successful and fsck
     need not be run again.  If /fastboot does not exist, rc runs
     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 disk check and repair succeeds,
     then the second part of rc is run.

     This second part of rc, which is run after an auto-reboot
     succeeds and also if rc is invoked when a single user shell
     terminates (see init(8)), starts the standard daemons on the
     system and performs other housekeeping tasks such as
     preserving editor files, clearing the scratch directory
     /tmp, and saving a core image of the kernel if one was made
     (see savecore(8)).  Rc.local and any other rc files that may
     exist, such as rc.net for starting network daemons and
     rc.mdqs for starting spooling daemons, are then executed.

FILES
     /fastboot                indicates whether fsck should be
                              run

SEE ALSO
     init(8), reboot(8), savecore(8), shutdown(8).
















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