From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 24 15:11: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00AB037B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6300 invoked by uid 3130); 24 Oct 2000 22:10:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20001024181056.D23280@electricjellyfish.net> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:10:56 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from Jordan Hubbard on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:58:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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