From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 01:23:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF90E16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE1A43D1D for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:23:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duanewinner@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [10.10.0.101] (pcp04355855pcs.glstrt01.nj.comcast.net[68.45.111.171]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004081101232211300rb4h9e> (Authid: duanewinner); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:23:22 +0000 Message-ID: <41197510.4060702@att.net> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:23:28 -0400 From: Duane Winner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <41193987.3060803@att.net> <20040810223058.GC6474@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040810223058.GC6474@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: order of starting services at boot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:23:44 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 10), Duane Winner said: > >>Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order >>of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? >> >>I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this. > > > The rc manpage explains rc.d/ and the magic keywords used inside its > scripts. Ugh. I kept seeing that but kept thinking I was misunderstanding since the lines began with '#' and couldn't get over thinking they were comments only. Thanks. > > >>For instance, if I would like to start ipfw before dhclient (right >>now dhclient starts, then ipfw starts), how would I accomplish this? > > > Add "ipfw" to dhclient's REQUIRE line. This change was made to > -current, so when 5.3 ships it'll already do what you want :) That's good news. So, I take it then I'm not some sort of freak for wanting to do this? :) >