From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 19:40:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 DA5A916A415 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pigskin_referee@yahoo.com) Received: from web34412.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34412.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28D6F43D5F for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:40:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pigskin_referee@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 92139 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Sep 2006 19:40:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4m3hiAsNKFzlXD8eUjR3a8bJaYnoLAh/0Om31dM5hhu+l7zQTRpd1YWl48/8KqMaWmEVX/xzix+TSjUDpP3dY/sHcrZ5o38wqjNb+ZtxYtBSvrbffT2wfPEtM/ugoA66QBwhSc9pvgKGqYNhUYNS/XaG2Q0tDFoaRxKfGy/DC4Y= ; Message-ID: <20060910194056.92137.qmail@web34412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.189.184.224] by web34412.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:40:56 PDT Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:40:56 -0700 (PDT) From: White Hat To: FreeBSD Users Questions In-Reply-To: <200609101906.k8AJ6KSU011285@shadow.sixcompanies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: Making startup order static X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:40:57 -0000 --- "J.D. Bronson" wrote: > how about putting them in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > and then using a numeric to start them > > 001file.sh > 002file.sh > > or create a script with just one file.sh ? I had considered that approach. The problem is if the program is updated it will will write a new file to the rc.d directory. Since I sort of automate the updating of my system, if I was not vigilante in inspecting the rc.d directory, I could very well end up with two scripts starting the same program. I am not sure how that would work; however, I would assume it would not be a good thing. Furthermore, I am not sure if the numeric thing would really work unless I also modified the REQUIRE: and BEFORE: settings in the scripts(s). I was hoping that there would be a master config file that I could manipulate so that each script is started in a precise order irregardless of its name. -- White Hat pigskin_referee@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com