Quoth Liane Praza on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:57:44AM -0800: > This is getting far more precise than the previous formulation, and is > getting less clear to me. Especially the part about "currently selected > repository is being monitored by svc.startd".
I think that's more likely to be understandable to more people than "alternate repository". But it's entirely possible that I'm underestimating users' familiarity with SMF. > I'd really prefer something that helps the user based on how they got in > the situation rather than helps them based on how the system is > behaving. That is, tells them that the snapshot is updated, and if you > didn't use the "repository" subcommand, refresh method will be called, > perhaps tells them other restarters may act differently. Would that be ok? Yes. I'm just concerned for the people who don't know, or have forgotten, that the running snapshot is supposed to be authoritative for most configuration. I think "commit" makes that clear, whereas "update" hints at it and leaves the user to extrapolate. But I don't want us to spend an inordinate amount of time on the help text, so I'll accept whatever you and Alan choose. David
