* Janardhan Molumuri <mjanardhan at gmail.com> [2007-04-13 16:46]: > I am trying to make a non-transient service offline. > > I wrote an SMF and using a method to start/stop the service. In the > method based on a condition I am starting the service if not don't > start and exiting.
At present, there's no way to say "not needed", although there is an RFE filed for such an expression. You can use "svcadm disable [-t]" to accomplish something similar. > I tried using the exit code $SMF_EXIT_MON_OFFLINE but the service goes > into maintenance state. > > SMF_EXIT_MON_OFFLINE 98 Monitor assesses service > instance as non-responsive > and effectively offline. > > Any ideas? A service method is not a monitor. (There is no support for monitors yet, so the documentation is advertising a code that is really just "reserved for future use".) - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
