Quoth John Levon on Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:55:33AM +0100: > Having entirely forgotten how svcprop -c / -C interact with which snapshot to > use, I found the svcprop manpage a little unhelpful. In particular, whilst it > does document that the 'running' snapshot is used by default, it's perhaps > non-obvious that the way to get the current properties (no snapshot) is by > specifying one of these options. I would suggest that some text after > > "The -w and -s options can be used to change the source of properties." > > to clarify that -c / -C can also change the source, and describe exactly its > effect.
Ok, I'll take a look and file a bug. Or you can file a bug if you want. > (On another note, I couldn't find documentation on what happens with > composition when both the instance and the service have a property value. Did > I > miss it somewhere?) There's a paragraph in smf(5). svcprop(1) should refer to it when mentioning composition. David