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.TH RC 8 "April 27, 1985"
rc \- command script for auto-reboot and daemons
is the command script which controls the automatic reboot and
is the script holding commands which are pertinent only
When an automatic reboot is in progress,
is invoked with the argument
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
which is run after a auto-reboot succeeds and also if
is invoked when a single user shell terminates (see
starts all the daemons on the system, preserves editor files
and clears the scratch directory
is executed immediately before any other commands after a successful
Normally, the first commands placed in the
file define the machine's name, using
and save any possible core image that might have been
generated as a result of a system crash,
The latter command is included in the
file because the directory in which core dumps are saved
is usually site specific.