hi,
'first time i've really had to dig into smf.
1) where is the state-transitioning of a Milestone like
svc:/milestone/devices:default
actually *implemented* ? eg, could I dtrace it to
watch the transition?
relatedly, i'm inferring the semantics of this
Milestone by using "svcs -d ..." to look at what it's
dependent on. is there another place that describes
the "spirit" of this Milestone? eg, the "single-user"
Milestone maps onto one of the run-levels.
2) for a binary like devfsadm, which can self-daemonize,
how does a Dependency actually work ? eg, the Service
system/picl relies upon devfsadm via this Service:
svc:/system/device/local:default
even if there's a "require_all" attribute, if devfsadm
daemonizes, how can picld compute whether devfsadm
is really "done" doing its activities?
3) i see in /var/svc/log/* there's a log per Service, but
these are logs w/ "Service-level" info (eg, "restart
was called", etc. is there some other log that is
the union of all the Services' run-time output ? ...or
is that still /var/adm/messages (or whatever's setup
in /etc/syslog.conf ?
thanks
/andrew
