Quoth Cathleen Reiher on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:50:54AM -0700: > > Cathleen Reiher wrote: > > > When you enable services, such as Solaris CIFS, > > > you get the following informational message: > > > > > > # svcadm enable -r smb/server > > > svcadm: svc:/milestone/network depends on svc:/network/physical, > > which has multiple instances. > > > > > > This seems to be a message you might see if > > > you enable a service that depends on > > > svc:/milestone/network. > > Renee said: > Assuming that miletone/network was already online when you issued > that command, it does seem unnecessary, and I would thing could be > a bug. You probably want to check with some smf folks about that. > > If milestone/network were not online, and neither of the network/physical > instances were either, it would make more sense. The -r option makes > the enable recursive; in which case you would end up with an ambiguous > request, since there are two different ways to fulfill milestone/network's > dependency on network/physical (enabling network/physical:default OR > enabling network/physical:nwam).
Renee is correct. svcadm enable -r isn't as intelligent as it could be. Go ahead and file a change request. David
