On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:17:52PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:02:19PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> rc.d files have REQUIRES and PROVIDE lines; these form a partial
> >> ordering.  A command called rcorder turns those into a linear order.
> >> See /etc/rc -- it's invoked by init, and starts everything else.
 
> One can either statically assign priorities, or let the
> provides/requires dynamically define and ordering.  So yes, it's more
> complex to describe, but it's simpler to set up the system so it works
> correctly, and it's more robust against changes.
> 
> It's quite easy to find out what the order will be for any set of scripts:
> 
> $ cd /etc/rc.d
> $ rcorder *
> 
> For debugging, it would be easy to add a "echo running $_rc_elem" in
> /etc/rc.d, and then you'd see what was being run.

Thanks for the helpful replies.  Lots to learn.

Doug.