> Byron Nevins writes: > > *** Is there a way for SMF to automagically notice and take control of > > the externally started app? ****
For SMF to "automagically notice and take control of" services started outside the context of SMF would require that SMF have knowledge of app behavior and that SMF observe the sorts of things that apps could do. The universe of possible application behaviors (listening on a TCP port number, fattach()ing a door to a well-known filename, using System V IPC, ... ) that SMF would have to look for is open-ended, so that SMF couldn't do this reliably. You could, of course, write a tool to discover whether your service has been started outside SMF, but then there'd be as many such tools as there are services, and then SMF could run them all (for disabled services) in a polling fashion, which would have negative impact on system performance.
