* Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> [2007-10-31 14:11]: > As you know we now have CIFS server bits in OpenSolaris, as well as > identity mapping bits. We now have two or three services that need to > be configured consistently, and not mechanism to ensure that. > > Specifically we need at least one system-wide knob: whether or not the > system should be operating as an Active Directory domain member. It > makes little sense to configure the CIFS server to be in workgroup mode > but the ID mapping service to support mapping between domain users/ > groups and Unix ones, so we'd like this configuration item to be > consistent for both services. > > Additionally we'd like to share configuration knobs that can be used to > override AD discovery (e.g., joined AD domain/forest/site name, local > domain controllers, local global catalog servers). > > So there's anywhere from one to half a dozen properties that we'd like > to share between two (and soon probably more) services. > > Gary suggests that we have a placeholder, transient service to hold > these properties. That should be simple enough, but before we go down > that road, are there other approaches that we should consider? > > Also, if we use a placeholder service then we'd like there to be a > refresh_on dependency attribute, like restart_on. But there is no such > attribute. I've filed:
Just so I understand, why isn't restart_on="refresh" sufficient? (It's how the milestone/name-service dependency some services have is handled, and seems to be similar on first glance.) - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
