* Renaud Manus <Renaud.Manus at Sun.COM> [2007-06-29 01:57]: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re:[smf-discuss] Prevent a service from trying to restart and > change the online status > From: Wee Yeh Tan <weeyeh at gmail.com> > To: Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> > Cc: Dan Fayette <fayette at rocketmail.com>, smf-discuss at opensolaris.org > Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 03:54:59 GMT+0200 (CEST) > > >On 6/29/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote: > >> Can you keep stunnel in the foreground? If so, you might be able to > >> do something like > >> > >> "stunnel ARGS || exit $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL" > >> > >> as the start method. > >> > >> If not, you'll need to write a little method in shell that runs > >> stunnel, and then does a wait, and then exits with a status with > >> precise meaning to smf(5). > > > >If I understand this correctly, the method will cause the service to > >never reach an online state and smf(5) will timeout the start script. > > Not if the service's model is set to 'child'. > > For 'contract' services, this will be addressed by the following RFE: > 6450661 start method failures should be configurable > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6450661
Thanks, Renaud: I think there's also a "fail once" RFE somewhere, that should be combined with this one... - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
