Re: How do I register a service?

[lrhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>]

Camaleón wrote:

> 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?

	Nevermind.  I found it.  I should be using insserv 
instead of update-rc.d