>> However, what about ordering requirements that are not an attribute
>> of either script involved, but rather of some decision the system's
>> administrator has made?  (I'm thinking things like "we want db X to
>> be up before starting inetd, because inetd has an entry that
>> accesses that db".)
> If db X is a `local' script, the correct way to do it is all in the
> db X startup script:

And if db X is from pkgsrc, or from a third-party vendor?  Is anything
not from the base system considered "local" in that the admin is
expected to have to hack on it for such things?

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