[Unix] A daemon that is run
periodically (typically once a week) to seek out and erase
core files, truncate administrative logfiles, nuke
lost+found directories, and otherwise clean up the
cruft that tends to pile up in the corners of a file system.
See also GFR, reaper, skulker.
c file /R-C fi:l/ n.
[Unix: from `runcom files' on
the CTSS system 1962-63 via the startup script
/etc/rc] Script file containing startup instructions for an
application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text
file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked
manually once the system was running but are to be executed
automatically each time the system starts up....