order of starting services at boot?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 10), Duane Winner said:
> Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order
> of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ?
> 
> I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this.

The rc manpage explains rc.d/ and the magic keywords used inside its
scripts.
 
> For instance, if I would like to start ipfw before dhclient (right
> now dhclient starts, then ipfw starts), how would I accomplish this?

Add "ipfw" to dhclient's REQUIRE line.  This change was made to
-current, so when 5.3 ships it'll already do what you want :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com