Brian Smith writes: > I have read filesystem(5). It says that /var/svc/manifest is the place for > "SMF service manifests. An approved installation location for bundled, > add-on system software and applications." What is the advantage of storing > the service manifests in /var/svc/manifest?
The system automatically finds them and integrates changes. > What happens if I don't store a > manifest there? If the user deletes everything in /var/svc/manifest then > will anything bad happen? No ... but why would anyone deliberately break the system by removing files delivered by packaged software? > If you put a file into /var/svc/manifest/network/<service>.xml then it won't > be picked up until reboot. That means I need to have a class script that > does "svccfg import -f /var/svc/manifest/network/<service>.xml". If I do > "svccfg import", then do I still need to still store the manifest in > /var/svc/manifest? If so, why? That shouldn't be necessary. "svcadm restart manifest-import" should do the trick. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
