Re: Why is a process started if the dependent file does not exist?

[Claus Klein]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 14:45, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> 
> On 9. nov. 2005, at 21.50, Claus Klein wrote:
> 
> > I want to disable the start of a daemon until an barier file exist.
> > So I tried the following example configuration.
> 
> This will not work. The depend feature only make sure that services  
> are started or stopped in order. There is no sequential wait between  
> service start.
> 
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> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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> 
Ok, thanks,

but I can't understand why the sevice is started every cyle too after the 
following messssage:

        'crond' service timed out and will not be checked anymore

claus