Cool. Thanks for running the experiment. tom
Alexandre Dumont writes: > adumont$ who -b > system boot 2009-07-27 22:07 > > In my case, as you suggested vbox:test01 was disabled before reboot (Jul 23 > 20:22:38). In the log I can see: ... > > So, based on this you seem to be right: after being enabled for the first > time since last reboot, the restarter/logfile property is populated and svcs > shows it again. > > Alex > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tom Whitten <thomas.whitten at > sun.com>wrote: > > > OK. I think that I understand. svcs gets the name of the log file from > > the restarter/logfile property for the instance. In this case the > > restarter property group is created and populated by svc.startd. The > > restarter property group is a nonpersistent property group, however. > > Nonpersistent property groups are lost on reboot. > > > > Thus, I think that you will only find a restarter/logfile property for > > services that have been started since the last reboot. The corollary to > > this is that svcs will only print a logfile for these services. > > > > Is this consistent with your experience? > > > > tom
