Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:23:28 -0400 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: order of starting services at boot? Message-ID: <41197510.4060702@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20040810223058.GC6474@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41193987.3060803@att.net> <20040810223058.GC6474@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 10), Duane Winner said: > >>Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order >>of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? >> >>I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this. > > > The rc manpage explains rc.d/ and the magic keywords used inside its > scripts. Ugh. I kept seeing that but kept thinking I was misunderstanding since the lines began with '#' and couldn't get over thinking they were comments only. Thanks. > > >>For instance, if I would like to start ipfw before dhclient (right >>now dhclient starts, then ipfw starts), how would I accomplish this? > > > Add "ipfw" to dhclient's REQUIRE line. This change was made to > -current, so when 5.3 ships it'll already do what you want :) That's good news. So, I take it then I'm not some sort of freak for wanting to do this? :) >
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