Jon Krueger wrote: > Under some circumstances, my start method spins > and dies. Meaning SMF keeps running the start method, > the start method (correctly) keeps reporting it doesn't > need to do anything, this repeats a few times, then SMF says > "Restarting too quickly, changing state to maintenance" > and proceeds to do so. > > I need to understand this better, why it's happening, > what's going on. Where is this documented?
If it's managed by svc.startd, in a modern copy of svc.startd(1M). There have been lots of improvements to the SERVICE FAILURE section, so an out-of-date copy of the manpage may be less interesting. (Do you have a non-transient service that sometimes starts a long-running process and sometimes doesn't? If so, that's the problem. Unless if you declare your service as 'transient', svc.startd expects a process to still be running when the start method exits.) liane
