I'm afraid I haven't had the time to test this in my particular
application ("works" always being the enemy of "better" :-), but I do
heartily endorse the integration of an official "run once" mechanism.
Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> Below is a script (tested) that solves the runonce problem.
>
> Is it worth ARCing and integrating into OpenSolaris?
>
> I'd place it in /lib/svc/bin as 'runonce'.
>
> Note that this script depends on ctrun(1), which isn't in /sbin, so
> there's no point converting it to be a /sbin/sh script unless we also
> have ctrun in /sbin, or convert the whole thing into a C program.
>
> Nico
