Tony Nguyen wrote: > Cathy Zhou wrote: >> >>>> We have a few questions for the SMF folks, which is why they're CC-d >>>> this mail. Is our use of SMF sounds reasonable? Do we need to make >>>> the linkmgmtd service depend on anything? We didn't know how SMF >>>> persists configuration information, and we didn't know if we needed >>>> to include a dependency here to make sure we can access the >>>> configuration data. >>> >>> It'd be a good idea to have a dependency on manifest-import. This >>> service generates the repository content on first reboot following >>> the installation and gets updated on upgrades. Services attempts to >>> access repository before manifest-import completes may get errors >>> because properties are not populated or old property values. The >>> drawback of having this dependency is the service may come up later. >>> >> Hmm, I saw that manifest-import depends on device/local and >> filesystem/usr. That will cause the dependency recursion as the >> device/local needs to have the dependency on the linkname service, in >> order to get the link name when the network devices attaches. >> >> - Cathy > Cathy, > > That's not what I'm seeing on b57 or S10 01/06. Having dependency on > manifest-import allows updates to your service manfest(on upgrades) to > be imported into the repository before the service starts. If this > dependency doesn't exist, your service may get started with the old > service definition. > > -tony > > bash-3.00$ svcs -l manifest-import > fmri svc:/system/manifest-import:default > name service manifest import > enabled true > state online > next_state none > state_time Mon Feb 12 17:21:09 2007 > logfile /var/svc/log/system-manifest-import:default.log > restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default > dependency require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/minimal (online) > bash-3.00$
This shows manifest-import depends on filesystem/minima, which depends on device/local and filesystem/usr. I think linkmgmtd service must be part of seed repository, and I think this should be sufficient so that linkmgmtd doesn't need to depend on manifest-import. Thanks - Cathy
