23 Mar
2016
23 Mar
'16
8:20 p.m.
Hello everyone,
I am Rocky and this is my first message. Before starting, I would like to thank you for
all the valuable informations and stories you post here.
About the History of Unix, I was wondering with another guy why the rc script has that
name. As many of you already know, and according to NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (current)
manual,
"The rc utility is the command script which controls" the startup of various
services, "and is invoked by init(8)" (from DESCRIPTION).
"The rc command appeared in 4.0BSD" (from HISTORY).
Words may slightly change between the three distributions, but the meaning and the
informations provided are the same. So, the etymology of rc does not appear in the man
pages. Do you know how to recover it? Do (or did) the letters rc have some meaning in this
context?
Cheers,
Rocky