order of starting services at boot?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of 
> > > the scripts in /etc/rc.d ?
> > 
> > I think it is just "alphabetic" order according to whatever sort
> > order is in effect.
> 
> But that _is_ how 4.X and previous version did it.  But I think it's
> changed in 5.x.

OH,  I overlooked that he specified 5.2.1.
Haven't worked on that yet.   Sorry,

////jerry

> 5.x has a some new stuff built into rcng which allows you to specify
> dependencies so that (for example) your database application doesn't
> start until the database server is up and running.
> 
> I don't know the details of how it works yet.  It's on my TODO list to
> take some time to research it and understand the new features available,
> but I haven't got to it yet.  Rhodes has apparently been busy, though,
> since there is a new section in the handbook on rcng:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
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