This is RFE 6450661 "start method failures should be configurable"
-- Renaud Neil Garthwaite wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
