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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:42:57 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509251441.KAA12169@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 10:41:35 am
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> > Ordering guarantees within a single run level/state are hard to provide
> > with the single monolithic file model.

> Actually, a single file is the easiest to control ordering in.

Not if you're adding to it from a script.

> Last I checked, line 1 always came before line 2. :-)

Yeh, but does "httpd" come before or after "nfsiod"?

It's much easier to do "ln -s ../init.d/httpd S95httpd" than to figure out
where in the middle of a user-hacked script a command needs to go.