Re: /etc/rc.d/ as a bunch of symlinks

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

> > > Right now I do this:
> > > cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/postfix /etc/rc.d/postfix
> > >
> > > which replacing the provided postfix.
> > You implicitly assume "/" and "/usr/pkg" reside on the same
> > filesystem.  It isn't always true in general.
>
> There's no such assumption. rcorder doesn't need anything besides the script 
> itself.
> Once the order is determined, rc has enough time to mount all necessary file 
> systems.

This approach does, however, assume that any file system to which any 
/etc/rc.d/* symlink points is available (ie, mounted) at the time that 
rcorder runs!  rcorder needs to read the various files in order to 
extract the REQUIRES/PROVIDES data which is needed for sequencing.

So, even if /usr/pkg/share/examples were made a "critical" file-system,
that would not be sufficient.  mountcritlocal doesn't run until after 
rcorder has determined the sequence in which it (and everything else) 
should be executed!




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