conf/145816: BEFORE in rcorder not always honored

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Wed Apr 21 20:48:04 UTC 2010


At 10:54 PM +0300 4/21/10, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:51:43 GMT Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I have sshd running from inetd, and I wanted inetd to launch before sendmail
>> because sendmail sometimes hangs. Thus, I added the following to
>> /etc/rc.d/inetd:
>> # BEFORE: sendmail
>> However, 'rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*' shows me that inetd is
>> still running (way) after sendmail in this case.
>
>Please note in sendmail rc script:
>
># PROVIDE: mail
>
>So you need to add:
>
># BEFORE: mail
>
>to have this working as you expect.

<sigh> That makes sense. I did not get from the rcorder man page and looking in a few modules that the PROVIDE names might be different than the module names.

Feel free to close this PR.

--Paul Hoffman


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