On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:08:28AM -0400, Christine Tran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a manifest for a DB; for a svcadm disable, I don't want to
> do a pkill but a graceful shutdown. I have to work with the
> possibility that there are other instances of the DB running on this
> box, and those processes may or may not be managed by SMF.
>
> For the stop method, I check to see if there's a pid file, if that pid
> matches the pid being managed by SMF, I shutdown. Else, I assume
> those other running processes are not mine, print something, and exit.
The :kill token will only kill processes that SMF is managing anyway, so
you could avoid any issues altogether that way, couldn't you?
> There is restarter/start_pid, but nothing like a current_pid, which
> leads me to believe SMF works through tracing the ctid to pids it
> owns. I may have to do this, it's a little more work since I can't
> grab it with svcprop, just checking that SMF does not keep a
> current_pid value for the service somewhere in the repository. It
> doesn't appear to, correct?
You want something like this, I think, don't you?
# svcs -p rpc/bind
STATE STIME FMRI
online Jul_31 svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
Jul_31 5090 rpcbind
#
Ceri
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