On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:56:08PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:

> > This isn't something that exists today (being able to 'ping'), is it?
> 
> No, but Bart's working on it.

OK, thanks.

> > More generally, this sounds like it requires significant reworking of
> > system functionality.
> 
> Not especially, I don't think.  In this case, we already have a syseventd
> service.  Its start method could simply be enhanced to do the work.  Then
> you deliver a file to, say, /etc/sysevent.d, tag that file as requiring a
> ping to the sysevent service, which gets restarted, or refreshed.

Sure, it's easy for syseventd. It's more or less easy for anything
from anything coming from Solaris already since we can just change it.

I'm a bit more worried about JRandomFramework. pkg(5) will be kind of
unique in needing changes like this. I suppose that's just a cost worth
paying (and clear documentation of what to do will make that easier).

cheers,
john
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