Gentoo - running scripts at startup

[Brett I. Holcomb]

The local.start and local.stop are the last and first respectively run by 
the system when it starts up.  I found the Gentoo startup order a little 
disconcerting, too.  I guess we'll get used to it <G>.



Jerry McBride wrote:

> On Sunday 07 September 2003 06:44 pm, Marianne Taylor wrote:
>> Then howcome it was running iptables before network?  Just by renaming
>> iptables to p-iptables I was able to get it running?
>>
> 
> If you don't use the dependency mechanism, then the rc scripts are
> executed based on alphabetical order. It really sucks too. Personally, I
> think this porion of gentoo should be overhauled and re-written to work
> something along the lines of good old fashioned system V startup scripts
> as implemented in Open Linux...
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 

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