RC(8)RC(8)NAME
rc, rc.boot, rc.local, rc.net - command script for auto-reboot and
daemons
SYNOPSIS
/etc/rc
/etc/rc.boot
/etc/rc.local
/etc/rc.net
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. rc.net is the command script that configures all known
network interfaces according to the rules contained in etciftab.
rc.boot is a command script that contains commands that need to be run
early on (e.g. before single-user mode is entered).
The processing of rc script can be suppressed by specifying the -s
option on the boot command line.
The processing of the rc.boot script can be suppressed by specifying
the -b option on the boot command line.
When an automatic reboot is in progress, rc and rc.boot are invoked
with the argument autoboot and run 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 after most
of the daemons are started. Normally, the first commands placed in the
rc.local file define the machine's name, using hostname(1). The latter
command is included in the rc.local file because the directory in which
core dumps are saved is usually site specific.
SEE ALSOiftab(5), init(8), reboot(8)NeXT Computer, Inc. June 22, 1989 RC(8)