On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:42:23AM -0600, Bob Netherton wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:08 -0800, Peter van Gemert wrote: > > Now imagine that you are new to Solaris and are working for the first time > > with SMF. > > I'll admit that SMF doesn't necessarily have the greatest curb appeal.
I won't. I'll admit that it had a bit of a learning curve, and it has a few quirks here and there, but overall I find it to be fantastic. It's the learning curve and the huge delta relative to the SysV init.d systemt that's a problem (and the latter is also a bonus). ... > And in looking the glass half full :-) Isn't it really cool that you > only have one command to start or stop a service and you don't have to I love svcs -xv. I love being able to match services without having to fully qualify them. I love process contracts. And so on. > look through several configuration files just to determine if it is a > standalone daemon or an on demand service via a delegated restarter ? Unfortunately I often find myself looking for start/stop methods and looking through the scripts. Common tasks should have useful shorthand commands.
