Hi Bob, Thank you very much. That's what I was hoping for. :-) The manifest is for PowerDNS, which I'll contribute to the Blastwave SMF collection (http://www.blastwave.org/smf/manifests.php)...anywhere run by Sun I should contribute it to as well?
Best Regards, Jason On 2/21/07, Bob Netherton <Bob.Netherton at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:22 -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > > > Sorry to bother. How should one echo an informational message so it > > gets captured to the SMF log for the service? > > No bother at all :-) > > Way at the bottom of the smf_method man page it says something like > > > File descriptors File descriptor 0 is /dev/null. File > descriptors 1 and 2 are recommended to be > a per-service log file. > > > > So if you just write to stdout or stderr (or shell echo) it will go > in the service log file, which by default > is /var/svc/log/<munging-up-of-service-name-to-remove-/'s>.log. > > > In my example using MySQL (see > http://bloghttp://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/manifests_for_apache1_and_mysql ) > > I added an echo "Hello World..." to the start method. Looking in the > logs I see > > > # tail -f /var/svc/log/application-mysql:default.log > [ Feb 21 21:53:02 Reading configuration. ] > [ Feb 21 21:53:02 No 'refresh' method defined. Treating as :true. ] > [ Feb 21 21:53:32 Stopping because service restarting. ] > [ Feb 21 21:53:32 Executing stop method ("/etc/sfw/mysql/mysql.server > stop") ] > Hello World... > Killing mysqld with pid 1411 > Wait for mysqld to exit. done > [ Feb 21 21:53:35 Method "stop" exited with status 0 ] > [ Feb 21 21:53:35 Executing start method ("/etc/sfw/mysql/mysql.server > start") ] > Hello World... > [ Feb 21 21:53:35 Method "start" exited with status 0 ] > > > So unless you have a delegated restarter that is doing something funky > like eating stdout and stderr then a simple echo should do. > > > Bob > >
