rc.d scripts
Kevin Brunelle
kruptos at mlinux.org
Mon Mar 26 03:46:37 UTC 2007
> >Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For instance
> >I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. Any help is
> >much appreciated.
>
> This may have already been answered by others, but I believe just rename
> the script with a prefix of "z" for example: "zmyscript.sh" or "zzmyscript"
> to make it very last beyond the first one with a "z".
>
> It works for me.
I have my suspicions regarding this working as you describe. As the order
isn't related to the filename but to the REQUIRE tags inside the file. It is
actually a non-trivial thing to make something run last. It seems like it
should be easy but the system doesn't work that way.
For example, adding a requirement for bgfsck (which was also last on my system
when I did this) moved bgfsck down the list... and still left dhclient 4th
from last. In fact, it took the addition of:
# REQUIRE: bgfsck bsnmpd bridge bluetooth
to actually make it the last thing run. And that is not a sure thing
either... as soon as the system is updated it is likely to change.
You could edit /etc/rc and add a skip for dhclient (to prevent it from being
run) and then a couple lines to get just it (with rcorder -k) at the very end
of /etc/rc to execute it at the very end. You would need to add a keyword
declaration in /etc/rc.d/dhclient
It's extremely non-standard but if absolutely required, it would work. Or
there probably are other ways. Still, the exact order of scripts [under the
current system] is not meant to be fixed and static. It is meant to be
flexible so things can be added and removed without worry.
-Kevin
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