rc.d/watchdogd: a suggestion

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 27 20:06:21 UTC 2011


On 11/27/2011 5:13 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I have a suggestion to start watchdogd a little bit earlier than it is done now,
> and correspondingly to stop it a little bit later during shutdown:

I have no particular opinion on changing the timing, but you haven't
said why you want to do it.

> @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
>  #
> 
>  # PROVIDE: watchdogd
> -# REQUIRE: DAEMON cleanvar
> +# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS syslogd cleanvar
> +# BEFORE:  SERVERS

Ideally base scripts should not use BEFORE. Change REQUIRE in SERVERS
instead.


hth,

Doug

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