On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:44, Russell Coker wrote: > Surely if a daemon takes a long time before it detaches from it's terminal > and > "goes daemon", then you can have a parent process put it in the background > and direct it's output to some convenient log file.
System V initscripts must not return until the services they start are ready to use. Otherwise running initscript Y after initscript X from /etc/rc?.d/ doesn't guarantee that Y can make use of X. Providing such guarantees is the whole point of the system. (Or have I somehow missed your point?) If you are going to try to speed up boot by relaxing the rule that services are started one at a time then you have to do this in such a way that the interdependencies of services are still satisfied. You have a choice between (1) adding "needs"/"provides" information to the system so that it knows which pairs of initscripts to serialize, and (2) changing initscripts so that they are able to wait until prerequisite services have become available. There are other possibilities, too ... -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
