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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: rc.d and rc.local
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> * It is important to make it clear at which point in the system startup
> these scripts are executed (after all other rc(8) stuff, only in
> multiuser, right? If I'm wrong, all more of a reason to specify so :).

ok, I'll say something to the effect that they're executed immediately
after rc.local.

> * A comment to the effect that the scripts are executed in ASCII order
> (I don't recall how to say that nicely :) at startup,

I think "lexicographical order" might be what you're after. :-) That's
what strcmp(3) says, and what find(1) says about the -s option, for
example.

> and reverse at shutdown,

Hmm?  I don't see that.

        for dir in ${local_startup}; do
                if [ -d "${dir}" ]; then
                        for script in ${dir}/*.sh; do
                                if [ -x "${script}" ]; then
                                        (set -T
                                         trap 'exit 1' 2
                                         ${script} stop)
                                fi
                        done
                fi
        done

> and hint that one can prefix certain scripts with digits to enforce
> their ordering.

good point.

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