--On Friday, July 22, 2011 11:10:29 AM -0700 Jerry Moore tech10@mcn.org wrote:
It appears that chkconfig is re sequencing or re ordering the start priority of various services when turning on a service using chkconfig.
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The only solution I've found is to remove the entire BEGIN INIT INFO to END INIT INFO section. Once that is removed it no longer changes the network startup priority when enabling the snmpd service.
SuSE (and perhaps some other distributions) have for a few years been using that BEGIN/END INIT INFO block instead of the 'chkconfig' line to determine ordering, and will do exactly as you described.
Without having looked into the CentOS 6 case, I would guess that the mechanism used in RHEL has changed to match. This could very well be related to the LSB project, although that's just a guess, too.
Devin