conf/145816: BEFORE in rcorder not always honored

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Wed Apr 21 20:50:06 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR conf/145816; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com>
To: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-rc at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/145816: BEFORE in rcorder not always honored
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:34:41 -0700

 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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