John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:58:50PM -0800, Cathy Thomas wrote: > >> So is it a "maintenance" state that my service should go into if no >> BMC is available, or a "disable" state? I'm afraid that a person >> would see the service "disabled" and keep trying to start it. > > Maintenance is the wrong state. Nothing is actually wrong and svcs -x should > be > empty (and it's a pity that it's not by default, see 5100134). > >> Do you know what the correct action would be in this case? > > You need to disable yourself temporarily. See > > 6245225 RFE: SMF_EXIT_DISABLE and SMF_EXIT_DISABLE_TEMPORARY
open for 20 months with no activity?... > Basically you should do something like: > > echo "No BMC device found: disabling." > svcadm disable -t $SMF_FMRI Why temporarily? This is likely to be an unresolvable condition (i.e. the service will never be able to run on this machine).
