Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:10:56 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <20001024181056.D23280@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from Jordan Hubbard on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:58:08PM -0700 References: <imp@village.org> <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:58:08PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > The scripts themselves have the ordering dependencies. The startup > > system runs them in the proper order. I don't know if this is > > pre-computed or redone each boot. > > I'm really curious about this, myself. One of the reasons the SYSV > scripts have the numeric prefix is so that you know exactly what order > things will be started in. With the NetBSD stuff, this is not > immediately obvious though I guess one could have a top level rc file > with an explicit ordering similar to our various subdir Makefiles, > but that also gives you another location to edit when dropping > in a new startup file. and, to reply a second time to this message, it is recomputed at each boot... the rc and rc.shutdown scripts both run rcorder to do it, with rc.shutdown reversing the order. -- garrett rooney my pid is inigo montoya. rooneg@electricjellyfish.net you kill -9 my parent process. http://electricjellyfish.net/ prepare to vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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