Quoth Darren Reed on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:43:44PM +0800: > While I'm thinking of useful changes to SMF, can it capture all > output sent to the console, directly, by services? > > So if the startup scripts for a service do 'echo foo > /dev/console', > can that be captured?
Technically, service scripts are supposed to pipe such messages to the smf_console() function defined in /lib/svc/share/smf_include.sh . Then you can define $SMF_MSGLOG_REDIRECT to direct the messages to a file. This won't get binaries which write directly to the console, though. For that, you'd need a generic console capture mechanism. consadm & cvc redirect, but it looks like they don't capture. > And further to this, is it possible to generate a single output > file of all of the stdout/stderr from services as they boot up? > > Although this can be something like a plate of scrambled eggs, > it can be useful to have in a single place all of the output from > services started (or attempted to start) at bootup, in an order > that is roughly equivalent to that in which they were generated in. > Yes, I've seen this mode of operation elsewhere but they only had > a more developed SVR4 rc system, not SMF. Is this just to debug service startup-order problems? David
