startpar

startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel

startpar [-p R par ] [-t R timeout ] [-T R global_timeout ] [-a R arg ] prg1 prg2 ...
startpar [-p R par ] [-t R timeout ] [-T R global_timeout ] -M [ R boot | start | stop ]

startpar is used to run multiple run-level scripts in parallel. The degree of parallelism on one CPU can be set with the -p option, the default is full parallelism. An argument to all of the scripts can be provided with the -a option. The output of each script is buffered and written when the script exits, so output lines of different scripts won't mix. You can modify this behaviour by setting a timeout. The timeout set with the -t option is used as buffer timeout. If the output buffer of a script is not empty and the last output was timeout seconds ago, startpar will flush the buffer. The -T option timeout works more globally. If no output is printed for more than global_timeout seconds, startpar will flush the buffer of the script with the oldest output. Afterwards it will only print output of this script until it is finished. The -M option switches startpar into a make(1) like behaviour. This option takes three different arguments: R boot , start , and stop for reading R .depend.boot or .depend.start or .depend.stop respectively in the directory R /etc/init.d/ . By scanning the boot and runlevel directories in /etc/init.d/ it then executes the appropriate scripts in parallel.

/etc/init.d/.depend.boot
/etc/init.d/.depend.start
/etc/init.d/.depend.stop

init.d(7), insserv(8), startproc(8).

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