Hi, I have a script that runs all the time, basically, it's a
while true sleep do check_something do_something done It runs fine. To be kosher I have written a manifest for it but its SMF state is never "online", it's always "offline" progressing to "online". I've reduced the timeout to 0. I must be missing something obvious, like a stdout re-direct or something. What's wrong and why won't SMF online it? Also, there are exit conditions. Since this is not a transient service, SMF will try to restart. Can I get to a maintenance state with something like exit $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL, and tweak the manifest to ignore signals, so SMF *never* restarts it even when all processes exited? If SMF tries to restart, it will succeed, but this isn't what I want. This stuff is too simple to write it as a real daemon, ie - a non-scripting low-level language. CT
