From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 00:20:21 2004 Return-Path: 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 6437E16A4D4 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:20:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyer.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17EC43D49 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.petanna.net [127.0.0.1]) i2A8NJ1J077686; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:23:31 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <404ED077.50407@circlesquared.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:23:19 +0000 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031102 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Shaun T. Erickson" References: <404E98CB.6060203@ste-land.com> In-Reply-To: <404E98CB.6060203@ste-land.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc script timing issues? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:20:21 -0000 Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start > my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the > scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start > authdaemond, which should fire up several authdaemond.mysql processes > and then they start the imap daemons. > > On reboot, the imap daemons are running, but the authdaemond.mysql > processes aren't. If I stop the imap script, and re-run it, everything > starts up just fine. > > I suspect that the database isn't getting started before the imap > scripts are run. So, I moved the database startup script to /etc/rc.d, > but on reboot, the database wasn't started. I had hoped moving it to > /etc/rc.d might start it earlier in the boot process. > > Suggestions? TIA. From man 8 rc.d: The scripts within each directory are executed in lexicographical order. If a specific order is required, numbers may be used as a prefix to the existing filenames, so for example 100.foo would be executed before 200.bar; without the numeric prefixes the opposite would be true. You might be able to see this if you've installed, say, mysql-client which uses a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d called 000.mysql-client.sh - the 000. forces an early startup. So I suggest you're better off moving the scripts back to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and prefixing them with numerals to get the startup order correct. PWR.