Gentoo - running scripts at startup

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I haven't had any problems either and I use rc-update so I guess I've 
gotten used to the way Gentoo does it and can live with it.  Still, part of 
me would like it to be more "standard".  However, the rc-update works very 
well so far.

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> When you install a script from an emerged package, use the rc-update
> command to do so. It causes the computation of dependencies and makes sure
> the script might complete. If you just copy a script to boot or wherever,
> I am not sure that the dependencies will be calculated when the system
> boots. Anyway, I use the rc-update command and have never had a problem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:01:32 -0400
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> 

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