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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