On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:21:55PM -0800, David Bustos wrote: > > Besides, it's a serious and, to my eyes, unnecessary constraint: > > > > Q: How many services can be the restarter for any given service instance > > at any given time? > > A: Just one. > > Are you suggesting that it should be possible for services to be > controlled by multiple services? That sounds complicated, but if you > have a use case, please file an RFE.
Administrators and svc.startd both control services. The former through the latter. Administrators like to automate things. > > I can see how a mechanism for excluding multiple copies of the same > > event consumer could matter, but then again, we already have that > > mechanism. > > What do you mean by "excluding multiple copies of the same event > consumer"? Like, two nwamd instances. I was trying -- badly -- to guess what your objection here was. > > (BTW, a monitor sub-command for svcs(1), much like the monitor sub- > > command of route(1M), strikes me as useful too.) > > Do you mean like svcprop -w? Anyway, please file an RFE. Yes, but without having to specify a single FMRI and pg/prop.
