.TH RC 8 .UC 4 .SH NAME rc \- command script for auto-reboot and daemons .SH SYNOPSIS .B /etc/rc .SH DESCRIPTION .I Rc is the command script which controls the automatic reboot .PP When an automatic reboot is in progress, .I rc is invoked with the argument .I autoboot and runs a .I fsck with option .B \-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 .I rc is run. .PP The second part of .I rc, which is run after a auto-reboot succeeds and also if .I rc is invoked when a single user shell terminates (see .IR init (8)), starts all the daemons on the system, preserves editor files and clears the scratch directory .B /tmp. .SH SEE ALSO init(8), reboot(8) .SH BUGS After making changes to the root file system, the system must be rebooted to keep the incore copy of the super-block from corrupting the newly computed super-block. This is silly. The system should be fixed so that this super-block is updated in core.