Shawn Walker wrote: > Greetings, > > I had some questions about SMF manifests that I was hoping someone could > answer. I've spent read through the available documentation that I > could find, but I still could not find anything that explains these items: > > 1. What are the differences between the different propval types (e.g. > count, integer, etc.)? Is there a document somewhere that explicitly > defines what each of these data types expects for a value (format, > limits, etc.)?
Hopefully the table in scf_value_create(3scf) helps. > > 2. Is it possible to create property groups of property groups (the > dtd suggests that this is not possible)? Correct. Not possible. > > 3. Is it possible to conditionally specify options to a program in > its start method based on a property value? In other words, if I have: > > <propval name='error_log' type='astring' value='stderr' /> > > ...can my start method conditionally include a --log-errors command-line > option to my program based on the value of the propval? Sure. Most people do this like it's done in /lib/svc/method/console-login. > > 4. I have a need for users to be able to specify values to the > program based on locale. This is not the locale that the program is > running in, but the locale of the content being generated by the > program. For example, I have a property group called "repository" and a > propval called "name". What is the best way for them to be able to > specify a value for "name" for each locale (e.g. en, fr, etc.)? We currently do this with a convention of appending the locale name to the property name. We don't have explicit formal support for it at this point, though. liane
