Quoth UNIX admin on Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:06:59PM -0800: > > If you don't specify an alternative repository, it > > uses libscf > > unmodified, which contacts the system svc.configd. > > If you specify an > > lternative repository, svccfg starts its own > > svc.configd on that file > > and uses private mechanisms to instruct libscf to > > communicate with it. ... > This definitely needs to make it into the manual page for current > incarnation of svccfg(1M). > Understanding how svccfg "repository" directive works is crucial to > understanding how SMF works. Perhaps that's not necessarily > achitecturally pure, but I feel that it would be useful to anyone > outside of Sun who is doing any kind of work with/on SMF.
Ok. I filed 6510821 svccfg(1M) should state limitations of the repository command > > Unfortunately not. That's one of the things we want > > to address with the > > Enhanced SMF Profiles project in the long term and > > 6509773 in the short > > term. > > BTW, that bug was not viewable when I tried to look it up on > bugs.opensolaris.org this morning. Yes, it's not live. I don't know how often it's updated, but it shows up now. David
