Change order of auto-starting services (sshd)

[critak]

Hey i want to let sshd start earlier than a certain other service (open vpn) !

Last week i change the settings of my openvpn connection and accidentally added a profile that requires a password.
So i was not able to connect via ssh because sshd was not started and openvpn was blocking the boot up because it was waiting for the password.

i don't want this happen again. so i want to start sshd before openvpn.

i found out that i have to look in /etc/rc*. but i can't find sshd.

How can i manage that?

thanks !

[DougieLawson]

Change this stuff in /etc/init.d/ssh

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#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             sshd
# Required-Start:       $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:        $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description:    OpenBSD Secure Shell server
### END INIT INFO

and /etc/init.d/openvpn

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#!/bin/sh -e

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          openvpn
# Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start:      network-manager
# Should-Stop:       network-manager
# X-Start-Before:    $x-display-manager gdm kdm xdm wdm ldm sdm nodm
# X-Interactive:     true
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Openvpn VPN service
# Description: This script will start OpenVPN tunnels as specified
#              in /etc/default/openvpn and /etc/openvpn/*.conf
### END INIT INFO

Then use update-rc.d to move the order that your /etc/rc*.d scripts get run.