[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#472587: sysvinit: managing the order of /etc/rc* symlinks is a slowing nightmare

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Alex Bodnaru]
> sorry to bother, but here's a snipet of out of box thinking:
> 
> instead of setting the number of starting/killing of each init.d 
> entry, i'd suggest each init.d script should name the processes 
> it needs to run in order to be started. a list for each runstate 
> may also help.

Hi.  You are looking for the insserv package.  See
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot> for the
status of the work to enable this feature for Debian Lenny.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen