OOPS, I hit ctrl-enter before I typed in the good news part.
Now the good news: > > All you have to do is replace "xxx < $configfile" with "sort > > $configfile | xxx". Actually, you can't since sort is in /usr/bin, > > you'll have to do a sort with bash functions. > > I don't have a sh function available for sorting at the moment and I'm > not sure whether I can accept the speed loss of such a function. I just realized you don't need a sort, the entries are numeric from 00 to 99 so you just need something like this scripts=`grep $runlevel_pattern /etc/runlevel.conf` for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do for y in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do for script in $scripts do if [ $script != ${script#S$x$y} ] then run $script fi done done done Everything is done in the shell so it will be fast. (1.5 seconds for 43 entries in run level 3 with 1 GHz VIA C3-2 processor). The inner loop could also be changed to start stuff in parallel like the sysv-rc package is doing except faster since they use disk access to sort. > > Tschoeeee > > Roland Cheers, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]