on 27/11/2011 22:06 Doug Barton said the following: > On 11/27/2011 5:13 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> I have a suggestion to start watchdogd a little bit earlier than it is done >> now, >> and correspondingly to stop it a little bit later during shutdown: > > I have no particular opinion on changing the timing, but you haven't > said why you want to do it.
So that it covers a larger period of system operation. My (one time) use case for it was to prevent a situation where an exiting X server hanged the whole machine. It happened so that watchdogd was stopped before X server got killed. >> @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ >> # >> >> # PROVIDE: watchdogd >> -# REQUIRE: DAEMON cleanvar >> +# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS syslogd cleanvar >> +# BEFORE: SERVERS > > Ideally base scripts should not use BEFORE. Change REQUIRE in SERVERS > instead. You mean so that SERVERS requires watchdogd? -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
