On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:04:07PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Why is it a problem that nfs-common and acpi-support are started
> before wb_keepalive?  Or are you talking about citadel, sysklogd and
> virtualbox-ose-guest-utils?  citadel have a bug in its header and

Both, the problem is that some hardware requires wd_keepalive to be started
asap. 

> should depend on sysklogd (#541075), and the same is the case with
> webcit (#541071).  Thank you for bringing these bugs to my

Will fix. Could you please point me to announcement of the changes in the init
process? I seem to have missed it.

> attencion. :) The scripts with the same sequence number might start in
> parallel, so there is no known ordering of those as long as no
> dependency information is documented in the init.d script header.

Which means wd_keepalive ideally gets a lower number.

> List the scripts you want wb_keepalive to run before in its
> X-Start-Before header, to make sure it is started before these
> scripts.

But again, I need to figure out which is the first one so I can list it. :-)

> I note that it used to start before sysklogd, yet it uses $syslog.  If

Not anymore, I think we already talked about this.

> you really want the daemon to start before the syslog server is
> available, you can use
> 
>   # X-Start-Before: $syslog
> 
> and remove $syslog from the (Required|Should)-Start headers (to avoid
> a dependency loop).  It would move it before all services depending on
> a working syslog service.  You will have to decide if it make sense in
> this case or not.

It does, I just would prefer to get it even earlier. Portmap for instance is
also started before syslog, although I have yet to figure out why.

Michael
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