[Xen-users] OT: Staging startups for dependent machines

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a bit OT for this list, but I'm sure people here will have dealt with it.

Does anyone have any suggestions for simple methods of staging 
machine (Linux in my case) startups when there are interdependencies 
? Eg, most of my servers rely on the DNS, so it would be nice if they 
could wait till the DNS is running before starting - otherwise I end 
up having to log in and either restart them or restart affected 
services.
Or would it be easier to have a site-wide hosts file with key hosts 
in it, and automatically distribute that ?
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