Liane Praza writes: > Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Antonello Cruz writes: > >> I don't agree > >> this is a problem. What are you trying to accomplish that you need to > >> use svcs -a and the output of the services used by pkg(5) gets in the way? > > > > Reduce clutter. Protect the admin from seeing things that look like > > services but really are metainformation storage containers for packaged > > objects. > > Most of these services aren't just for packaged objects, they do > self-assembly of the system on reboot, just like all the other transient > services.
Well, yes and no... since the system only consists of packaged objects (or should :-)... but this is IMHO too philosophical for now. > If you want an option to svcs which doesn't list transient services, that > would be straightforward, and maybe even a good idea -- show me the > services which are actively performing work on the system, as opposed to > things like, say coreadm, or network/physical:default, or even > manifest-import which do something when they're started, but then aren't > involved in active operation. In theory, that would be good. However, someone or something then would need to classify the "work" that the service does. Sheperding a pid and restarting things if a pid goes away is certainly "work on the system" in my mind. Being a dependency for other "working" services: Is that "work" in itself? Hmmm... A service just sitting around in the SMF repository waiting for some package to be removed is not "work". > But, I'm skeptical that these services which are activated by packaging > are a more special class than other transient services. I believe so. I'll try to set up a system and give some examples soon. (But don't hold your breath). Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
