On 6/15/06, David Powell <David.Powell at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:56:09PM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > > 2) "svcs -x ntp" does not make sense. > > "Start method is running" but it is "offline". > > This should probably be "i'm disabling myself" > > True, it could print a better message, especially since the "Start > method is running" and "offline" combination is printed in the both > the starting-up and shutting-down case. svcs -l isn't ambiguous in > this case, though.
Both messages are correct in that 1) Start method is indeed still running 2) Service is indeed offline (given (1)) Taken into context, what is lacking here seems to be the "next state" information for SMF. Also lacking is when the start/stop method will timeout. -- Just me, Wire ...
