order of starting services at boot?

[James Skinner]

Yeah. I guess that ipfw isn't started like that. Durr. I didn't reallt read
the original post.

--
James S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
To: "Duane Winner" <duanewinner at att.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: order of starting services at boot?


> 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 at allantgroup.com
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