[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Woodcock) wrote on 10.06.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * /etc/init.d/rc is modified to call a program that determines the order > the scripts should be run in, on the fly. I figure this won't be much > of a speed hit. Slrn can thread thousands of messages per second across > a localhost news connection on my machine, sorting 30 scripts shouldn't > take long either. Actually, we don't even need to thread, we can probably > get away with just checking on script exit (any script exit) whether > there's something else available to run or not - if there's nothing else > available but there's still stuff that wants to be run, we can just run > it anyway. man tsort This does what you need. It even gives you a file format: before1 after1 before2 after2 ... MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]