* Tomas Heran <tomas.heran at sun.com> [2006-11-09 08:01]: > Below are some thoughts and questions with regards to logging in SMF. > > For starter, it'd be nice to be able to "register" service specific > logfile in a same way as one can "register" manpage, so that it's > at least mentioned by svcs(1) when -x option is specified. This RFE is a good idea. Please file it.
> Another thing which might be useful some people would be the ability to > access (as in write to) the service/instance logs which are being held > in /var/svc/log/ subdirectory. I'm aware of the fact that the can > write to these logs from smf_method, but it might be useful to be able > to write to the same log from the daemon spawned by the smf_method. The daemon can just not close stdout and stderr; those descriptors are connected to the /var/svc/log/ log file for each instance. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
