Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:17:43 -0500 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc script timing issues? Message-ID: <404F3197.1000409@ste-land.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: > 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. This was exactly the solution I needed and, per your later email, I also made sure the client script runs first. -ste
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