vmware on RedHat and init



I am having issues when services and modules get loaded prior to vmware
in init. hprsm specifically (HP Lights-Out Drivers and Agents).
Therefore I was trying to move vmware up the init process list to start
before hprsm.. HOWEVER...

I am running into an issue. No matter what I change the chkconfig
header information to it always starts at S99!!!

(i.e. /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware:)

# chkconfig: - 85 08
# description: Manages the services needed to run VMware software


# ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*vmware*
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99vmware

Am I missing something here? Does chkconfig store this configuration
setting somewhere else I need to change? IT works fine if I change 08
to 02 then when I turn it off, it goes to K02 instead of K08, etc. etc.

I finally think I found the issue though:

Can someone please tell me why in the default file created by HP they
have:

# Required-Start: $network $syslog

and RHEL doesn't like this.... but it appears to be valid syntax!?!

changing it to:

# Required-Start: network syslog

works fine. Although I am not 100% sure what the ramifications for this
are.... Suggestions? Comments?

.



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