Jon Krueger wrote:
>> Unless if you declare your service as 'transient',
>> svc.startd expects a process to still be running when the start method
>> exits.)
>
> That seems related:
>
> [ Jun 3 00:47:18 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-labeld
> start") ]
> /lib/svc/method/svc-labeld: already enabled. Exiting.
> [ Jun 3 00:47:19 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
> [ Jun 3 00:47:19 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
>
> The second line comes from my start method here:
>
> echo "$0: already enabled. Exiting."
> exit $SMF_EXIT_OK
>
> Our process isn't transient. Should be present.
>
> How about I instrument a little checking:
>
> echo "$0: already enabled. Exiting."
> ps -aef | grep -labeld
> exit $SMF_EXIT_OK
>
> If the start method is spinning, would I expect to see
> no matching process at that point?
>
See Liane's response for answers. A couple more follow up questions.
labeld seems to be started outside of SMF. How is it started? Is it
reasonable to simply start your smf service whenever labeld is needed?
-tony
