Oops.  I just got home and booted up to find that the
server _does_ start with other "local" services. 
Sorry for the bad post.

Still, though, how do you control the order of startup
scripts?  I'm assuming that there are times when it
would matter.

Thanks,

Andrew

--- Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How do you control when a service is started during
> boot up?  Does it matter if a database server is
> started before the inet daemon (that is, not with
> "local" services)?
> 
> Background:
> 
> I have completed my first installation of NetBSD.  I
> have compiled and installed PostgreSQL 7.2.1 (I need
> version >= 7.2 for tables without oids) from source
> into /usr/local/pgsql.  There was a startup script
> for
> the FreeBSD port in the contrib directory; so I
> edited
> its PATH line, copied the file to /etc/rc.d/pgsql
> and
> made it executable.  The database server starts
> prior
> to what bootup describes as "local" servers such as
> apache.  In fact, it starts prior to the inet
> daemon. 
> Does this matter?  (The server appears to start okay
> on bootup and stop during shutdown.) If it matters,
> how do I control when it is started?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Gould
> 
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