On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:08:11AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > System V initscripts must not return until the services they start are > ready to use. Otherwise running initscript Y after initscript X from > /etc/rc?.d/ doesn't guarantee that Y can make use of X. Providing such > guarantees is the whole point of the system. (Or have I somehow missed > your point?)
That's a nice idea, but in practice, few daemons actually do this. There was a thread about this somewhere, in a bug report against BIND I think. -- - mdz