> It seems that OSPF starts quite early in the boot process before other > things have finished booting. > > Is their a way to delay the start so that it only starts announcing once > all the start up scripts have run etc?
That would be wrong. I can figure out why you want it. The starting of routes from OSPF is not meant to indicate that higher level services are now available. In fact there may be higher-level services which require that the routes are available before they can start.

