Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:58:00 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com> Subject: Re: rc script timing issues? Message-ID: <404ED898.1040304@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <404ED077.50407@circlesquared.com> References: <404E98CB.6060203@ste-land.com> <404ED077.50407@circlesquared.com>
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Peter Risdon wrote: > Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > >> On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that >> start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When >> the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start >> authdaemond, which should fire up several authdaemond.mysql processes >> and then they start the imap daemons. >> >> On reboot, the imap daemons are running, but the authdaemond.mysql >> processes aren't. If I stop the imap script, and re-run it, >> everything starts up just fine. >> >> I suspect that the database isn't getting started before the imap >> scripts are run. So, I moved the database startup script to >> /etc/rc.d, but on reboot, the database wasn't started. I had hoped >> moving it to /etc/rc.d might start it earlier in the boot process. >> >> Suggestions? TIA. > > > From man 8 rc.d: > > The scripts within each directory are executed in lexicographical > order. If a specific order is required, numbers may be used as a > prefix to the existing filenames, so for example 100.foo would be > executed before 200.bar; without the numeric prefixes the > opposite > would be true. > > You might be able to see this if you've installed, say, mysql-client > which uses a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d called 000.mysql-client.sh > - the 000. forces an early startup. So I suggest you're better off > moving the scripts back to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and prefixing them with > numerals to get the startup order correct. One small note - the startup script for mysql-client is prefixed with 000. but the one for mysql-server is not prefixed by a numeral. The mysql client has to start before the server. You'll need to prefix mysql-server.sh with a numeral but it must be > 000. PWR.
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