Making startup order static

[J.D. Bronson]

At 02:02 PM 9/10/2006, White Hat wrote:
>--- Martin Werner <bsdml at werner.st> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > thought about using PROVIDE and REQUIRE keywords
> > (see
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh resp.
> > clamav-freshclam.sh
> >
> > Maybe you might want to have a look into "man rc" or
> > "man rcorder"
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   -Martin-
> >
> > > FreeBSD 6.1
> > >
> > > I need to keep several programs starting in a
> > > particular order.
> >
> > > clamav-clamd
> > > clamav-freshclam
> > > clamsmtpd
> > > saslauthd
> > > dovecot
> > > postfix
> > > fetchmail
> >
> > > By default, they do not start in that order. I
>have
> > > modified the rc.d files to force them to start in
> > > the
> > > order specified above.
> > <
> > > The problem is that every time I update these
> > > programs
> > > the rc.d startup file is modified which destroys
>the
> > > changes I have made. This then requires me to
> > > recreate
> > > the modifications to force the start up order I
> > > require.
> > >
> > > Is there anyway I can achieve this goal in a
> > > simplified manner? I thought perhaps there might
>be
> > > something I could add to the /etc/rc.conf file;
> > > however, I have not discovered it.
>
>Martin, I don't think that you understood what I
>meant. Either that or I described it incorrectly.
>
>I did modify the rc.d files using BEFORE: and
>REQUIRE:. That works just fine. The problem is if one
>of those files is updated, the rc.d file is
>overwritten resulting in the loss of my customization.
>I therefore have to manually edit those files again. I
>was trying to find someway to circumvent that
>procedure.


how about putting them in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
and then using a numeric to start them

001file.sh
002file.sh

or create a script with just one file.sh ?

-JD