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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:30:58 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: order of starting services at boot?
Message-ID:  <20040810223058.GC6474@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <41193987.3060803@att.net>
References:  <41193987.3060803@att.net>

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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.
 
> 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 :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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