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Re: Strang shutdown mechanism with Debian



On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:36:25PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I know :)
> 
> >-- that is all that the numbers do.  They only matter if things must be done
> >in a certain order.
> 
> But that is exactly my point. It _does_ matter if things must be
> done in a certain order.
> 
> For example, with the new /etc/rcS.d scheme, it is trivial to move the
> moment at which the NFS mounts are done around; you can move it from
> /etc/rcS.d/S45mountnfs.sh to /etc/rc2.d/S19mountnfs.sh if you want to
> without worrying that upgrades will destroy this new setup.

I'm sure this violates some piece of policy I haven't finished reading yet
but ... what about using a three-digit number for certain tasks?

S190blah should always be called before S195blah if the mechanism is sorting
based on filename, after all.

Dan


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