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Subject: [smf-discuss] How to make a service go into maintenance.
From: Brian Utterback <brian.utterb...@sun.com>
To: smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 14:57:16 GMT+0200 (CEST)
> I have two related questions. The first is how can a daemon supplying
> a service indicate that there is a problem and that the service should
> go into maintenance rather than having the restarter restart it?
svcadm mark maintenance FMRI
>
> Secondly, on a related note, is there anyway to mark a service as
> "not applicable"? If, for instance a service that was designed
> specifically for a particular configuration found itself started
> on a system without that configuration, is there a way for the
> daemon to exit and not get restarted and not appear in maintenance
> but still get started on the next reboot?
Your daemon could just disable it until the next reboot:
svcadm disable -t FMRI
Does that help?
-- Renaud
