Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:35:40 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc: not working as expected? (round 2) Message-ID: <20081010153540.GA35710@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30810100819v175fe867j87ad533b7f2651c9@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dab70a30810100819v175fe867j87ad533b7f2651c9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:19:21PM -0300, Paul Halliday wrote: > (I mistakenly sent the last msg before finishing..) > > Or maybe an interpretation issue. > > I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and I am experiencing timing > issues. i.e. I need xyz to start before abc. > > Within xyz I tried: > > # REQUIRE: abc > > This didn't work so I tried: > > 100.xyz > 900.abc > which doesn't appear to work either. > > What am I missing? The answer is probably in the rcorder(8) or rc(8) man pages. I'm betting you need to use the "BEFORE" clause, and the string you need to match on is whatever one (or more) of the "PROVIDE" clauses are in the script which you want to start first. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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