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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