# account-coldstart macro

The account-coldstart macro performs
any account specific coldstart processes and allows users to define
their own custom sequence of activities to perform each time the system
is powered on or rebooted.

This avoids having to alter the system-coldstart command or restoring the user-coldstart command
each time an upgrade to a new release is performed.

This command
is executed by the system-coldstart macro just
before the user-coldstart is executed as the last
piece of the coldstart routines. For each account, the system-coldstart copies the account-coldstart item to a temporary
item in the dm account and then executes it from that location. Anything
referencing other files from within the account-coldstart should either use explicit pathing (for example, myaccount,myfile,mydatalevel)
or ensure that the appropriate *q* pointers are set up in the
dm account. Failure to do this results in the coldstart routine not
completing correctly.

The account-coldstart does not need to be a macro, but can be any valid executable master
dictionary entry, (verb definition, macro, proc, cataloged basic program,
and so on).

## See also

- [coldstart command](https://d3codex.com/tcl/coldstart-command/)
- [coldstart.log command](https://d3codex.com/tcl/coldstart-log-command/)
- [user-coldstart macro](https://d3codex.com/tcl/user-coldstart-macro/)
- [coldstart-accounts command](https://d3codex.com/tcl/coldstart-accounts-command/)

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Source: https://d3codex.com/tcl/account-coldstart-macro/ - part of the D3Codex reference.