diff --git a/init.d/hwclock.in b/init.d/hwclock.in
index f78cc7c3..3bfcab1d 100644
--- a/init.d/hwclock.in
+++ b/init.d/hwclock.in
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ depend()
 	if yesno $clock_adjfile; then
 		use root
 	else
-		before *
+		before binfmt bootmisc fsck hostname keymaps localmount loopback mtab
+		before procfs root swap sysctl termencoding urandom
 	fi
 	keyword -docker -lxc -openvz -prefix -systemd-nspawn -uml -vserver -xenu
 }
diff --git a/init.d/swclock.in b/init.d/swclock.in
index 9ceba444..67baaab0 100644
--- a/init.d/swclock.in
+++ b/init.d/swclock.in
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ description="Sets the local clock to the mtime of a given file."
 
 depend()
 {
-	before *
+	before adjkerntz binfmt bootmisc devdb dumpon fsck hostid hostname keymaps
+	before localmount loopback modules mtab network newsyslog procfs root
+	before savecore staticroute swap swap-blk syscons sysctl syslogd
+	before termencoding ttys urandom wscons
 	provide clock
 	keyword -docker -lxc -openvz -prefix -systemd-nspawn -uml -vserver -xenu
 }