Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 225

RC(8)
MAINTENANCE CO:MMANDS
RC(8)
NAME
rc - command script for auto-reboot and daemons
SYNOPSIS
/ete/re
/ etc/ rc.local
DESCRIPTION
R c
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 and runs a
Jsck with option
-p
to "preen" all the disks or minor inconsistencies resulting rrom the last sys-
tem shutdown and to check for serious inconsistencies caused by hardware or sortware failure. If
this auto-check and repair succeeds, then the second part of re is run.
The second part or re, which
is
run after a auto-reboot succeeds and also if re 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.
Re.local is executed immediately berore any other
commands after a successful fsck. Normally, the first commands placed in the rc.local file define
the machine's name, using hostname(l), 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)
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Last change: 16 February 1984
Sun Release 1.1