Peter van Gemert wrote:

Hi Peter,
> first feature is a simple way of looking at a service log file. Nowadays I 
> have to first find the logfile name with svcs -l fmri and than do a 
> cat/more/less on the file name found. I'm suggesting adding a command to 
> OpenSolaris that will take a fmri as argument and then display the content of 
> the log file.
>
>   
(bash):root at ferrari:/root # svcs -x ssh | grep log
   See: /var/svc/log/network-ssh:default.log      

or

view $( svcs -x ssh | grep log | awk '{ print $2 ; }' )

> The second feature is finding a the methods of a service easily. To find the 
> names of the methods used by a service again takes multiple steps. First take 
> a look in the log file and then do a cat on the method name found. It's also 
> possible to find this information with svcprop but I always forget the 
> properties used for storing the start and stop methods.
>
>   
(bash):root at ferrari:/root # svcprop ssh | grep exec
start/exec astring /lib/svc/method/sshd\ start    
stop/exec astring :kill                           
refresh/exec astring /lib/svc/method/sshd\ restart
> Am I alone in wanting this features in OpenSolaris? 
>
>   
Not that difficult I think and very simple to write a script that does 
what you want.

In my opinion the features are nice to have but not really important

But that's only my 2 cents

regards

Bernd

> Greetings,
> Peter
>
>
> I created two shell scripts to show you what I'm after.
>
> Examples:
> # svclog ssh
> ... output skipped ...
> [ Feb 21 10:51:08 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sshd start") ]
> [ Feb 21 10:51:11 Method "start" exited with status 0
>
> # svcmethods ssh
> fmri                   svc:/network/ssh:default
> logfile               /var/svc/log/network-ssh:default.log
> start method     /lib/svc/method/sshd start
> stop method     :kill
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