On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, RJ45 wrote:
> I have never understood in which order are execurted the scripts which are > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > most port applications like mysqld, cyrus-imapd, spamd etc. put their > startup scripts into /usr/local/etc/rc.d but they are not ordered by a > number attached before the script name (like the Unix SysV style) > > anyone has some hint about this ? > How can I Set the startup order into /usr/local/etc/rc.d The scripts are started from /etc/rc; the code fragement looks like: for dir in ${local_startup}; do if [ -d "${dir}" ]; then for script in ${dir}/*.sh; do slist="${slist}${script_name_sep}${script}" done fi done script_save_sep="$IFS" IFS="${script_name_sep}" for script in ${slist}; do if [ -x "${script}" ]; then (set -T trap 'exit 1' 2 ${script} start) elif [ -f "${script}" -o -L "${script}" ]; then echo -n " (skipping ${script##*/}, not executable)" fi done IFS="${script_save_sep}" echo '.' Thus the scripts are executed in alphabetic order. Regards Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"