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diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e953a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man8/rc.8 @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)rc.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd December 11, 1993 +.Dt RC 8 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm rc +.Nd command script for auto\-reboot and daemons +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm rc +.Nm rc.local +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Rc +is the command script which controls the automatic reboot and +.Nm rc.local +is the script holding commands which are pertinent only +to a specific site. +.Pp +When an automatic reboot is in progress, +.Nm rc +is invoked with the argument +.Em autoboot . +The first portion of +.Nm rc +runs an +.Xr fsck 8 +with option +.Fl 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 +.Nm rc +is run. +.Pp +The second part of +.Nm rc , +which is run after an auto-reboot succeeds and also if +.Nm rc +is invoked when a single user shell terminates (see +.Xr init 8 ) , +starts all the daemons on the system, preserves editor files +and clears the scratch directory +.Pa /tmp . +.Pp +.Nm Rc.local +is executed immediately before any other commands after a successful +.Xr fsck . +Normally, the first commands placed in the +.Nm rc.local +file define the machine's name, using +.Xr hostname 1 , +and save any possible core image that might have been +generated as a result of a system crash, with +.Xr savecore 8 . +The latter command is included in the +.Nm rc.local +file because the directory in which core dumps are saved +is usually site specific. +.Pp +Following tradition, the startup files +.Nm rc +and +.Nm rc.local +reside in +.Pa /etc . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr init 8 , +.Xr reboot 8 , +.Xr savecore 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.0 . |