Re: significance of 2 digit number in rc.d directory.

[Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se>]

On Wednesday, June 05, 2002 07:56:09 PM -0700 Bruce Ferrell 
<bferrell@baywinds.org> wrote:
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| I was under the impression that the scripts executed in numerical order.
| They do under Solaris anyway
|
| rich+ml@lclogic.com wrote:
|
| > There really is no significance. The scripts are executed in
| > alphabetical order (somebody does "for script in S*; do exec $script
| > start; done"), and the two digit sequence is a typographical convention
| > to make it easy to manage that order.
| >
| > == Rich
| >
| > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mohammed Khalid Ansari wrote:
|
| >> I have seen that the files in rc.d directory starting with either S or
| >> K are followed by two digit number. I understand that S stands for
| >> start and K for kill but what is the significance of the numbers that
| >> followed.
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Sorry but in Solaris they execute in ascii order, the code that executes 
them is:

for f in /etc/rc0.d/S*
do
  if [ -s $f ]
  then
    case $f in
      *.sh)   . $f ;;
      *)      /sbin/sh $f start ;;
    esac
  fi
done

The fact that there are usually 2 digits after the S is purely a convention.

/Michael
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