Re: new rc.d style & ordering

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:15:09AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:32:06 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_fer.hr> said:
> >
> >
> >>What about services such as apache, which may or may not depend on 
> services
> >>such as databases, if they are installed? For example: If I run 
> apache with
> >>php and mysql, I want mysql to be started before apache.
> >
> >
> > In theory, you can put in a null script whose only purpose is to force
> > the dependency order:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # REQUIRE: database
> > # BEFORE: web-server
> 
> Ouch, I should have though of that :) I see in rcorder.c that it's valid
> and supported to have one script with "PROVIDE: database mysql" and
> another with "PROVIDE: database postgresql". Also from looking at the
> code, it seems that probably there's no need for a dummy "database" script.
> 
> It's still not clear to me if one could put "database_load=YES" in
> rc.conf and load them all at once?

No, you need to start each service by name.

-- Brooks

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