> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:35:07 -0400 > From: Brian Utterback <brian.utterback at sun.com> > > I am in the processing of moving the packages SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu > from the ON consolidation to the SFW consolidation. I have been > removing all trace of these packages from the onnv-gate repo, but I > found some things in the file usr/src/cmd/svc/prophist/prophist.SUNWcsr
It would appear that prophist (prophist_upgrade) is a method of speeding up SMF import at first boot (after the packages are installed). Seems to have been tested at the Sun shop in Scotland for some 18 months on both SPARC and i386 boxen. See: http://markmail.org/message/siwlmzqsyoi6kmp6 http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=164222 Regards, Gregory Hicks > > These are the lines in question: > prophist_upgrade network/ntp start timeout_seconds 1800 6 > prophist_upgrade network/ntp stop timeout_seconds 60 3 > prophist_upgrade network/ntp start exec "/lib/svc/method/xntp" \ > "/lib/svc/method/xntp start" > prophist_upgrade network/ntp stop exec ":kill" \ > "/lib/svc/method/xntp stop" > /usr/sbin/svccfg -s network/ntp delpropvalue paths/entities \ > "file://localhost/etc/inet/ntp.conf" > prophist_adddpt svc:/network/ntp ntp_multi-user optional_all none \ > svc:/milestone/multi-user > instance_refresh svc:/network/ntp:default > instance_refresh svc:/milestone/multi-user:default > > In the course of the move, the service will be upgraded to NTP > version4, and the start method will no longer be called xntp, it will > just be ntp. > > The thing is, I have no idea if I should remove these lines or not. > Does anybody know what they are for? > > Thanks. > -- > blu > > "Mark my words, nanotechnology is going to be huge!" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
