On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Jordan Brown (Sun) < opensolaris at jordan.maileater.net> wrote:
> Has anybody ported SMF (or any significant subset) to Linux? > > We have a large multi-process application that we currently run under > Solaris with SMF. We've been asked to port it to Linux, and so are > presented with the question of how to do the startup/shutdown > management. One obvious answer is to implement some subset of SMF for > Linux, so that the interfaces to the application are all the same. > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org > I believe Ubuntu team has come up with an answer to SMF for/from Linux community called 'Upstart' , its right now available on the latest ubuntu release but its going to be a little while before it makes to the mainstream linux releases. Upstart is an event based system likely seen as a supplement or a replacement to the init daemon. startup links : http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart cheers! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20080309/0e320594/attachment.html>
