Scott Rotondo wrote: > A question about the behavior of SMF milestones: If I specify a > milestone using boot arguments and that milestone depends upon a > disabled service, will the service be enabled? > No, I'm afraid. Milestones are also services with dependency on other smf services. Thus, a milestone won't automatically enable other services to satisfy its own dependency.
> If so, I'm wondering if that might be a solution to the following > problem. When running the miniroot environment found on the install > media, ssh is not enabled. However it is sometimes useful (for > debugging purposes) to boot with a way to log in remotely. Would it be > possible to specify an alternative milestone at boot time that would > cause ssh to be enabled? > > If not, is there another way to affect the SMF state via boot > arguments? I'm asking about a general mechanism, not creating a new > boot flag that would be interpreted to enable this one specific service. Currently, I believe there's no mechanism to affect a service's general enable state via boot argument. If this is strictly for install debugging, I wonder if it's possible for install miniroot to deliver another ssh service with different dependency criteria and enable/disable that service as necessary. -tony
