From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 24 20: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1280537B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA317394; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:04:57 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <21384.972424688@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:04:55 -0400 To: Jordan Hubbard , Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Cc: bv@wjv.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:58 PM -0700 10/24/00, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > The scripts themselves have the ordering dependencies. The > > startup system runs them in the proper order. I don't know > > if this is pre-computed or redone each boot. > >I'm really curious about this, myself. One of the reasons the SYSV >scripts have the numeric prefix is so that you know exactly what order >things will be started in. With the NetBSD stuff, this is not >immediately obvious though I guess one could have a top level rc file >with an explicit ordering similar to our various subdir Makefiles, >but that also gives you another location to edit when dropping >in a new startup file. One should have some other script that you could run, which would look thru all the rc files and just list which order they will be run at startup (or at shutdown). That way you could find out the order for a given set of scripts without having to actually startup or shutdown... (I have no idea how netbsd does it, I'm just saying that I would think some other script should be provided which could list out the proper order without actually running any of the scripts...) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message