Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:40:05 -0400 From: "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcorder example? Message-ID: <44998475.8080707@poklib.org> In-Reply-To: <200606202150.22728.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <44980305.7010806@poklib.org> <200606202150.22728.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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RW wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:15, B. Cook wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm looking at what I think is the right answer.. but can't make sense >> of it.. >> >> basically I have a couple of mailservers that run exim and dnscache, all >> being called out of daemontools. >> >> but I can't seem to figure out how to make svscan start first.. > > I don't see what you are getting at here, if exim and dnscache are started by > svscan, then by defininition svscan *is* starting first. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Yes svscan starts dnscache and exim, but many services depend on dns (dnscache is setup on loopback) so I have to wait (for up to 3 minutes) for dns timeouts to occour so that they boot can continue, and finally get to starting svscan (quite low in the dictionary order of things) So I'm looking for how I can control the order that things start up in. I've since changed the order by prepending 000, 010, 020, etc.. to startup script, but I just thought there was a way to manipulate it and not disrupt installs and plist related startup script.
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