I need some Gentoo tips...

[Federico Voges]

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:57:23 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:05:34 -0500
>Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hey list.
>> 
>> As a new gentoo bigot... How does one re-arrange the startup scripts? On
>> the laptop thta I'm  testing gentoo on, during shutdown pcmcia goes down
>> and takes eth0 with it... before the net-eth0 script runs.... when the
>> net-eth0 script runs, since eth0 is already down, it prints a nasty
>> message that eth0 hasn't been started yet... It's bogus.
>> 
>> What I think should be happening is... net-eth0 should run before pcmcia
>> during shutdown. If I do this manually, it works beautifully...
>> 
>> So, how does one re-arrange the shutdown scripts in gentoo?
>
>The scripts are in /etc/runlevels. There are directories called 'default',
>'nonetwork' and the like. The concept is identical to the /etc/rc.d (SVR4)
>stuff. Just the names are changed. Oddly, the names of the scripts are not
>prefixed with a number. And, the scripts contain bash functions like
>'start', which get called in the appropriate context, instead of the case
>statement in the/etc/rc.d system. They get run by /sbin/runscripts.sh. Maybe
>there is a clue to how ordering is done there. Surely is it not strictly
>alphabetic. But I don't know.
>
>

Gentoo init script use dependencies to find the order in which they
should be executed:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml


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