Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> As you say, the REQUIRES and PROVIDE gives a partial ordering but
> there's nowhere that I can just look to see in what order things happen
> the way I can just e.g. ls rc2.d

You can:
  $ man rcorder
  DESCRIPTION
    rcorder is designed to print out a dependency ordering of a set of
    interdependent files...

  $ rcorder /etc/rc.d/*
  /etc/rc.d/wdogctl
  /etc/rc.d/raidframe
  /etc/rc.d/cgd
  /etc/rc.d/ccd
  /etc/rc.d/swap1
  ...

ciao
     Klaus