On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I didn't ask why we need local.d. I asked why we need to run it LAST, >> and why we need to run all of that other stuff LAST? Of course, the >> reality is that we aren't running all of that stuff last since exactly >> one script can REALLY be run last. >> >> If your answer is that something in local.d might need to use the >> network, then specify that it needs the network. If the answer is >> that it needs to use nfs, then specify that it needs to use nfs. If >> it needs to happen after a bunch of random things but you can't be >> sure which things they are, then just create a virtual service and >> make it need that. >> >> The solution is the same for both local.d and all that "other stuff" >> that "needs to be last." Just specify what they actually need. This >> is a dependency-based service manager. > > This will require every sysadmin to know well how openrc works and > how to specify appropriate dependencies for custom out-of-tree > daemons. While I support the idea that sysadmins should be well > prepared to tweak internals of systems they are working with — and > to know this internals well in order to do such tweaks —, in real > life people often don't have time to dig such deep into the system > and will prefer other solutions which keeping stuff simple. > > local.d where people can just put their scripts without handling > any deps is a simple way. That's why we need it. (Of course if > someone dislikes this approach, it not hard to disable local.d > at all.) > > And if local.d needs dependencies to be specified how does it > differs from just writing plain new service and putting it into > init.d? Frankly, I do such things when I need custom complicated > services for my needs. >
There is mention here that there are many scripts that are set to run last, not just local.d. You haven't addressed those. For local.d it seems reasonable to just have a default config that makes it run after network and mounts. Or maybe make local.d and allow that alone to run last. You can have one thing run last. -- Rich
