Hi, Thanks for all your responses.
Indeed ifplugd has a switch -w, which I accidentally turned off some time ago. Once I reinstated the switch, the two scripts (ifplugd and bind9) seemed to be properly synchronized. Thanks! Clement On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Joey Hess wrote: > LEE, Yui-wah (Clement) wrote: > > What is a clean way to introduce a delay between the > > scripts in /etc/init.d ? > > > > I saw a problem that /etc/rc2.d/S27bind9 started before > > /etc/rc2.d/S25ifplugd actually completed all the tasks > > ... > > > > Specifically, ifplugd, with the help of resolvconf, > > would generate the file /var/run/bind/named.options, > > which would be used by bind9. Unfortunately by the > > time bind9 ran, the file was not yet generated. > > > > I could force a delay between the two scripts by > > introducing another script (run at S26) that does > > nothing but sleep for a fixed time (30 seconds). That > > seemed to work around the problem. But I wonder if > > there is a cleaner solution. > > > > Ideally, the delay should not be fixed but dynamic. > > That is, a later script can have some means to know for > > sure that an earlier script has completed all the tasks > > already. > > The best way to accomplish this is to fix the earlier program so that it > does not return until all tasks are complete. > > pcmcia-cs used to have similar problems, which were fixed by making > cardmgr run with the -f switch. ifplugd has a -w switch that is supposed > to do the same thing according to at least some of the documentation, and > is enabled by default. Maybe it's not working though, or doesn't > actually wait until the interface is up, but just until the initial link > beat detection is done? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
