Hi,
After reading the svc.startd (1M) man page and in particular "SERVICE
FAILURE", I'm trying to find if I can influence
"...
If three method failures happen in a row, or if the service
is restarting more than once a second, svc.startd places the
service in the maintenance state.
..."
It appears that even a transient service gets retried three times if
the start fails to exit within the start timeout, i.e. the start times
out. Basically, I have an SMF service which works fine. However, I'm
now injecting some faults to determine how robust it is and in this
regard the start method checks to see if the application is really up
and available for work before exiting from the start method.
In one particular fault injected case, my SMF service consumes all of
it's start timeout and then times out. However, it gets restarted 3
times before entering into a maintenance state. In this regard if all
of start timeout is consumed I would simply like the SMF service to
enter maintenance state and not get retried three times.
So, is there a property I can use to influence the number of retries
for start.
My only thought to achieve only one start is to keep a count of the
consumed time, i.e. ksh variable $SECONDS and then exit with
$SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG or $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL just before the service
times out.
I was hoping a transient service would be exempt from being restarted
three times but it appears not. I would appreciate any thoughts on how
to achieve only one start or other suggestions to my thought of
keeping a count within the start method.
Regards
Neil
