Quoth Paul Neary on Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:41:14PM +0100:
> Does the repository get updated each time I use an svccfg command though
> (before doing a refresh)?
Yes. Changes are stored on the directly attached properties, and
refresh updates the running snapshot.
> I'm still not seeing this working on Nevada 113 however. I'm running
> an svccfg script to add the options and do a refresh (see attached).
> svccfg -f ./svccfg_add
>
> o The -p seems not to work
> # svcprop -p options/logging svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
> svcprop: Couldn't find property group `options' for instance
> `svc:/system/svc/restarter:default'.
It works for me on 109. What does
truss -t \!all -u libscf svcprop -p options/logging ...
report?
> Is this unusual behavior something to do with sv.startd being the master
> SMF service?
Yes and no. svc.startd knows that instance is special and avoids
operating on it to prevent strange things from happening. This includes
updating, or even creating, a running snapshot. However, svcprop and
svc.startd know to fall back to the current properties if the running
snapshot doesn't exist, so that svcprop should work anyway.
David
