Re: How do I register a service?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:02 -0500, lrhorer wrote:

> I have a couple of services I need to run from init.d for runlevel 2.
> One of them depends on networking, so of course I supply the lines
> 
> # Provides:          pyTivo
> # Required-Start:    $syslog $network
> 
> at the top of the init script.  The second service, however relies on
> the first one, so I need to make sure it is not run until the first is
> up.  It seemed to me I could guarantee the script order by putting
> 
> # Required-Start:    $syslog $network $pyTivo
> 
> at the top of the second script, but now I'm not so sure.  

That makes sense to me :-?

> The networking script has
> 
> # Provides:          networking
> 
> instead of
> 
> # Provides:          network
> 
> which is what I would expect if the mechanism worked as I had surmised.
> How do I guarantee the script order is maintained by update-rc.d?

You mean what's the difference between "$network" and "networking" in 
LSB parlance?

http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/facilname.html

THT

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón