Scott Rotondo wrote: > Tony Nguyen wrote: >> 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. > > I was afraid that might be the case. So I guess the boot would just > hang waiting for the ssh service, which will never start because it's > disabled. That's probably the right behavior in general, but it's > unfortunate in this case. > >> >>> 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. > > Not sure I understand what you're suggesting. I think the ssh service > dependencies are fine, as is the fact that it is normally disabled in > the miniroot. But how do you enable it for a particular boot of the > system? > > Scott > Scott,
Disclaimer ;^) just an idea as I've not tested this. I think we can't simply enable the current default ssh as you suggested since the current default ssh service defines dependencies for a "functional" Solaris system and I would guess install miniroot wouldn't satisfy these dependencies(e.g. svc:/system/cryptosvc, autofs, filesystem/local). However, install miniroot is capable of running ssh so delivering another ssh service with a smaller set of dependency to operate in the miniroot environment. -tony
