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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Mark Hattarki wrote:
> I was explaining how rc.local starts processes at boot to a non-techie and
> they asked me what the "rc" stood for. My first guess was runlevel
> control, but someone else reminded me that the early BSDs had them, but no
> concepts of runlevel. Anyway, I figure it stands for "resource control" or
> something like that (consistent with things like .pinerc, etc...).
>
> Does anyone know exactly what it stands for?
I found another mailing list question like yours, with a pretty good
resonse. The post is at
http://www.sumthin.nu/archives/servlin/Nov_2000/msg00006.html
That post points to a unix FAQ at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/section-3.html which
describes various strange unix names (do you know what awk stands
for?) including rc
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