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C 4 rc - command script for auto-reboot and daemons /etc/rc

/etc/rc.local

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 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. Rc.local is executed immediately before any other commands after a successful fsck . Normally, the first commands placed in the rc.local file define the machine's name, using hostname (1), 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.

init(8), reboot(8), savecore(8)