[Initscripts-ng-devel] Defining the workgroup objectives

[Sam Rowe]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:50:12PM +0200, a-aa wrote:
# Sam Rowe wrote:
# 
# >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:24:01AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
# ># Should we have any other objectives? Should we drop any of the objectives
# ># listed above, or modify them?  Note that defining the design goals for each
# ># objective are a separate issue.
# >
# >Is it worth thinking about providing a facility for cross-machine
# >dependencies?
# >
# >I'm thinking about a case where I don't want to bring up my web
# >servers until my database (that lives on a different machine) is up.
# >  
# >
# This can be solved by doing something like
# need = real dependencies
# use = start after if they are in the runlevel
# before = needs service X to start before us.
# 
# example apache2 need = checkfs, use = mysql, or mysql doing before =
# apache2.

How does this solve cross-machine dependencies?

-Sam