On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:04:32PM -0800, Rob Johnston wrote: > I think one thing I like about enabling/disabling the debug log via an SMF > property is that we can make the setting persistent. So I would propose > that I retain that aspect of the current implementation and simply change > it to log into syslog, rather than to the private log file. Do that seem > reasonable?
You can always just fprintf() to stdout or stderr -- SMF arranges for those to go to a log file (see svcs(1) -xv). SMF will take care of log rotation. > Also, since it is a private debug mechanism, perhaps I should remove the > mention of it in the man page? Unless it's of use to users, yes, remove it. Nico --