From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 17:40:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFC816A47C for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poklib.org) Received: from c.mx.poklib.org (c.mx.poklib.org [64.72.87.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF74643D48 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:40:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcook@poklib.org) Received: from [192.168.1.249] (helo=mail.poklib.org) by c.mx.poklib.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60; FreeBSD) (envelope-from ) id 1Ft6gQ-0003o3-Bf ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:40:06 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.218] by mail.poklib.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60; FreeBSD) (envelope-from ) id 1Ft6gP-000N6m-OU ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:40:05 -0400 Message-ID: <44998475.8080707@poklib.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:40:05 -0400 From: "B. Cook" Organization: Network Administrator - Adriance Memorial Library User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <44980305.7010806@poklib.org> <200606202150.22728.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200606202150.22728.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RcvHost: [192.168.1.218] X-RcvFor: X-Auth-Id: X-AntiVirus: No Virus Found X-MIME-Character-set: ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcorder example? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:40:08 -0000 RW wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:15, B. Cook wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm looking at what I think is the right answer.. but can't make sense >> of it.. >> >> basically I have a couple of mailservers that run exim and dnscache, all >> being called out of daemontools. >> >> but I can't seem to figure out how to make svscan start first.. > > I don't see what you are getting at here, if exim and dnscache are started by > svscan, then by defininition svscan *is* starting first. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Yes svscan starts dnscache and exim, but many services depend on dns (dnscache is setup on loopback) so I have to wait (for up to 3 minutes) for dns timeouts to occour so that they boot can continue, and finally get to starting svscan (quite low in the dictionary order of things) So I'm looking for how I can control the order that things start up in. I've since changed the order by prepending 000, 010, 020, etc.. to startup script, but I just thought there was a way to manipulate it and not disrupt installs and plist related startup script.