mention creation of /var/run/dmesg.boot

feedback and ok jmc@, ok deraadt@ on an earlier version

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.8
index 0ec0c3c7b17..bd83c71e660 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: rc.8,v 1.36 2011/04/29 07:08:27 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: rc.8,v 1.37 2011/07/31 10:58:58 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)rc.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 29 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 31 2011 $
 .Dt RC 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ The second part of
 then asks
 .Xr rc.conf 8
 for configuration variables,
-mounts filesystems, starts system daemons,
+mounts filesystems, saves 
+.Xr dmesg 8
+output to the file
+.Pa /var/run/dmesg.boot ,
+starts system daemons,
 preserves editor files,
 clears the scratch directory
 .Pa /tmp ,
@@ -187,6 +191,12 @@ Tells
 not to run
 .Xr fsck 8
 during the next boot.
+.It Pa /var/run/dmesg.boot
+copy of
+.Xr dmesg 8
+saved by
+.Nm rc
+at boot time
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,