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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:02:19 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Olivier Regnier <oregnier@oregnier.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Questions about shell scripts in /etc/periodic/daily
Message-ID:  <20070625210219.GD6494@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <46802341.6070304@oregnier.net>
References:  <46802341.6070304@oregnier.net>

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In the last episode (Jun 25), Olivier Regnier said:
>  Just curiosly, in /etc/periodic/daily, there are many shell scripts but 
>  there is an variable rc by example :
>  - rc=0
>  - rc=1
>  - rc=2
>  - rc=3
>  What exactly does the "rc=0, rc=1 ..." flag mean ?

rc stands for "return code"; you can see that each script ends with an
"exit $rc" command.  See the periodic(8) manpage for a description of
what the different numbers represent.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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