Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:19:30 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /etc/rc.d/ [was: Where to put my own startup script] Message-ID: <40B5C0B2.7070600@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040527084903.GA17193@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <40B2B7D4.5040106@users.sourceforge.net> <20040525210812.9728A5D08@ptavv.es.net> <20040526181624.GB55179@empiric.dek.spc.org> <40B5899E.7030506@fillmore-labs.com> <20040527073700.GA16531@speedy.unibe.ch> <40B5A069.8080909@fillmore-labs.com> <20040527084903.GA17193@speedy.unibe.ch>
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Tobias Roth wrote: >>>2) will be very nice. PR 56736 from eik seems to address this very >>>elegantly. ports that need to be started early can be started directly >>>after >>>the dummy PORTS dependency, all others that do not explicitly request a >>>specific startup order should be started at the end of rc.d/. this of >>>course also solves 4). >> >>You should not really use PORTS, but whatever you need to run. > > i don't understand what you mean by that. i was just trying to briefly > describe what your patch from PR 56736 does. maybe i got it wrong? PORTS is *very* early in the startup process. Most ports require at least syslogd, so DAEMON or even LOGIN is far more appropriate. If you need to start early, maybe SERVERS is a good choice. >>>now, shouldn't racoon be started before mountcritremote? #$%#!#, i think >>>i just shot myself in the foot. comments please :-) i am sure that can >>>be fixed elegantly as well. >> >>The problem here is that /usr might not be a local filesystem, so touching >>anything there before mountcritremote is not a really good idea. > > that is exactly what i wanted to say. since racoon might be needed to > mount remote filesystems, and at the same time possibly being located on > one, we have a problem. You can't do that by default. If you want to support this you have to hand-tune your configuration. -Oliver
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