Bug 115848

Summary: New sort of RequiredStart
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: VERIFIED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jan Engelhardt 2005-09-08 12:44:55 UTC 
the init.d infos should have a field to define the order,
e.g. something like RequiredStart, but without really needing it and only
serving as an order mark.

E.g. /etc/init.d/syslog: CURRENTLY
RequiredStart: $network
COULD BE:
MustComeAfter: $network

This is because syslog does not need 'network', only the lo interface, which is
already set up during boot.localnet.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-08 12:53:07 UTC 
No it must not.  Think twice you really do not need this.
and therefore the LSB specs do not define this.

Btw: The syslog _reqires_ networkl to be able to log
over network to a remote log server, compare with
the manual of syslogd.
Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2005-09-08 13:06:35 UTC 
Well this wasnot related to syslog really. The feature request is basically to
have a field to define depencendies. If these dependencies are not started,
that's ok, but the boot order is important. Not for syslog, but for general apps.
Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-08 13:14:12 UTC 
Believe me: the kausal order is always correct, if you switch
between cause and impact you'll get the backward order.
Think about make and Makefiles.
Comment 4 Jan Engelhardt 2005-09-08 14:43:32 UTC 
I do not know what you wanted to say by that, but to put it concretely:       

I've got my firewall which currently has

  RequiredStart: $network named

named, because it resolves hostnames. However, there are also linux clients
without a named and just libresolv (/etc/resolv.conf), therefore, the "named"  
in the RequiredStart would be a hindrance. Resolving would work anyway because
of the properly setup resolv.conf.
Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-08 14:47:50 UTC 
Use Should-Start