Quoth Tim Foster on Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:03:44PM +0100: > To summarise, I'm using a transient service that builds a cron job to > take automatic snapshots of a given ZFS filesystem (and optionally, it's > children), storing the various options for each instance in the SMF > repository. I figured that this allows admins to easily manage their > snapshot schedules, without having to mess about with cron jobs (yuck). > > > Here's my question: given that the cron job itself is responsible for > carrying out the tasks that the service offers, it's disconnected from > the usual service logging that the smf-method enjoys. Is there any way > to have the cron job log it's output to the service instance log file ? > (apart from the obvious re-direction of stdout/stderr)
No. > Would this be a valid RFE, or am I missing something obvious that's > already provided ? I'd welcome any help (or education via baseball > bats :-) that you guys could offer! I don't think this use case will be common, and it would be quite awkward to architect & implement. Given that we think a cron restarter would probably be a good candidate for SMF services anyway, I think we would either close this RFE as will not fix, or use it to track the cron restarter. David
