On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:58:08PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard thus spoke:
> > 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.
This was my thought also. I put the TCP/IP scripts at 99 to make
sure that any slow network initialization is done.
Since they all start with S - for example S99tcp - moving it
to s99tcp will keep it from starting, and the Knn<name> in the same
directory is used to stop things when moving from that run level.
It's one of the things I like about the Sys V /etc/rc<n>.d
directory structure, as you can easily fine tune it to fit your
needs. Just a look at the files and you know the order.
Bill
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