specific order of services

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to start services in specific order while booting ?
>
> For example
>
> I need the following services to be started in the below order
>
> 1)openvpn --> This should start first
> 2)networking --> This should start second
> 3)shorewall --> This should start third

You should start shorewall before networking!

You can create an openvpn event and have the start of networking depend on it:
http://netsplit.com/2008/04/27/upstart-05-events/