Quoth Jordan Brown on Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:39:13PM -0700: > If I want a service to run once at its next opportunity, does something > like this seem plausible? > > <service_bundle type="manifest" name="myapp:myRunOnce"> > <service name="application/myapp/runOnce" > version="1" > type="service"> > <instance name="default" enabled="true"/> > <exec_method > type="method" > name="start" > exec="/opt/myapp/runonce; svcadm disable $SMF_FMRI"/>
I see two potential problems with this. First, if runonce dies prematurely, svc.startd won't restart it. Second, if runonce wants to return a specific SMF return code, it won't be able to. > Should I try to figure out how to delete the service too? (It seems > like that might be hard to do, since you can't delete a service that's > running.) Actually, you can, with svccfg delete -f. > It would be nice if there was a clearly defined run-once pattern. We have had requests for one-shot services in the past. Nobody has come up with requirements or a design, though. David
