launchd/src/rc.8

   1 .Dd May 31, 2006
   2 .Dt RC 8
   3 .Os Darwin
   4 .Sh NAME
   5 .Nm rc
   6 .Nd command script for boot
   7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
   8 .Nm rc
   9 .Nm rc.local
  10 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  11 Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, the
  12 .Nm rc
  13 script
  14 was used to bootstrap the OS. As of Leopard, the system is self-bootstrapped via
  15 .Xr launchd 8
  16 which uses the
  17 .Xr launchctl 1
  18 bootstrap subcommand to read in launchd jobs from the standard locations.
  19 For compatibility reasons, the
  20 .Nm rc.local
  21 script still continues to work.
  22 .Pp
  23 The startup file
  24 .Nm rc.local
  25 reside in
  26 .Pa /etc .
  27 .Sh SEE ALSO
  28 .Xr launchd 8 ,
  29 .Xr launchctl 1