Nicolas Williams writes: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:40:57PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > >On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:54:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > >>>> 2. Is it possible to create property groups of property groups (the > > >>>>dtd suggests that this is not possible)? > > >>>Correct. Not possible. > > >>Hrm, someone mentioned that: > > >> > > >> You can manage a pool of configuration values using the property group > > >> mechanism, with an overall property group listing the relevant group > > >> or groups for each member. > > >> > > >>What did they mean by that then? > > > > > >You can have one pg/prop naming dynamically-created pgs that are part of > > >an ad-hoc group-of-pgs. > > > > > >That'd be totally ad-hoc. But doable. > > > > I'm almost a complete SMF "newbie" -- can you expound a bit? > > # svccfg > svc:> select someservice > svc:/someservice> help > ... > svc:/someservice> addpg > Usage: addpg name type [P] > > Add a new property group to the currently selected entity. > svc:/someservice> addpg foo application > svc:/someservice> setprop foo/pg_list = astring: foo1 > svc:/someservice> addpropvalue > Usage: addpropvalue pg/name [type:] value > > Add the given value to the named property. > svc:/someservice> addpropvalue foo/pg_list foo2 > svc:/someservice> addpg foo1 application > svc:/someservice> addpg foo2 application > svc:/someservice> setprop foo1/someprop = astring: bar > svc:/someservice> setprop foo2/blahblah = astring: baz > svc:/someservice> listprop foo* > foo application > foo/pg_list astring "foo1" "foo2" > foo1 application > foo1/someprop astring bar > foo2 application > foo2/blahblah astring baz > svc:/someservice> ^D > # > > > Nico > -- > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
After modifying the repository with svccfg, don't forget to "svcadm refresh <service>". This will move the repository modifications into the running snapshot, so that they can be seen by the service. tom
