I?m experiencing a problem with an SMF stop method on Solaris x86. The daemon in question is NTP. I am also experiencing the same issue with my SSH daemon but will use NTP for the purpose of this question. These are both scripts that I copied from my sparc implementation but I cannot figure out why SMF is having issue with the stop method since the script by itself stops the daemon just fine. I am by no means an expert with SMF or Solaris so forgive me for overlooking something simple.
Executing "svcadm disable ntpd" puts it into maintenance mode. Output from ?svcs ?x? is as follows: bash-3.2# svcs -x ntpd svc:/network/ntpd:default (NTPD) State: maintenance since Tue Jun 09 20:30:09 2009 Reason: Method failed repeatedly. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-8Q See: /var/svc/log/network-ntpd:default.log Impact: This service is not running. I have checked the web page recommended above but it is not very helpful as to what the underlying cause could be. Processes related to ntpd and ntpddate are not running after the stop method is issued. Clearing and enabling the service with svcadm starts the service without issue. Logfile: /var/svc/log/network-ntpd\:default.log [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Stopping because service disabled. ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/ntpd stop") ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Method "stop" exited with status 208 ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/ntpd stop") ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Method "stop" exited with status 208 ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/ntpd stop") ] [ Jun 9 20:30:09 Method "stop" exited with status 208 ] [ Jun 9 20:32:13 Leaving maintenance because clear requested. ] [ Jun 9 20:32:13 Enabled. ] svcs ?l produces: bash-3.2# svcs -l ntpd fmri svc:/network/ntpd:default name NTPD enabled false state maintenance next_state none state_time Tue Jun 09 21:03:52 2009 logfile /var/svc/log/network-ntpd:default.log restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default contract_id 263 dependency require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online) dependency require_all/none svc:/network/loopback (online) dependency require_all/none svc:/network/physical (online) dependency require_all/restart file://localhost//usr/local/etc/ntpd.conf (online) dependency require_all/none svc:/milestone/network:default (online) The method script: # # Start/stop NTPD # . /lib/svc/share/smf_include.sh stop_ntpd() { /usr/bin/pkill ntpddate /usr/bin/pkill ntpd } case "$1" in 'start') if [ -x /usr/local/bin/ntpd -a -f /usr/local/etc/ntpd.conf ] ; then if [ -x /usr/local/bin/ntpdate ] ; then /usr/local/bin/ntpdate timehost ; sleep 2 fi /usr/local/bin/ntpd -c /usr/local/etc/ntpd.conf & fi ;; 'stop') stop_ntpd ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }" exit 1 ;; esac exit $SMF_EXIT_OK The manifest: The tags of xml file are not displayed correctly through the forum interface. If someone absolutely needs them I can figure out a way to post it. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
