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Ricardo Marimon
Asked: 2011-10-21 20:36:45 +0800 CST

Reorder the way in which scripts are run at startup

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I just moved to debian squeeze and need to change the startup sequence of some scripts. I used to do this with update-rc.d service defaulta xx xx but now with the LSB way of doing things the update-rc.d method does not change the order.

I need to start the packages in this order:

  • openvpn
  • ndo2db
  • nagios
  • apache2

Any ideas?

debian lsb init.d

2 Answers

  1. Just use Required-Start keyword. For e.g, init script for ndo2db should have the following:

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ndo2db
# Required-Start:    $openvpn
# Required-Stop:     $openvpn
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Daemonized ndo2db
# Description:       Starts the ndo2db daemon
### END INIT INFO

    Take a look at this for more details.

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  2. Once you edit the Required-Start lines (and Required-Stop lines) in the appropriate files in your init.d directory, perform the following commands for each of the services you'd like reordered:

    chkconfig --del servicename

chkconfig --add servicename

    Once you do this, the init scripts will be reordered in your rc#.d directories.

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