Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Cathy Zhou wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have question regarding the interaction of SMF and zones, and would >> like to get some help here: >> >> As part of my project (the Clearview vanity naming project), I added a >> service network/linkmgmt to manage datalinks, and I changed manifest >> of two services (device-local and network/physical) to make them >> depends on the new service. Note that this linkmgmt service is only >> needed in the global zone. >> >> It works fine on the global zone. But in a local zone, >> network/physical failed to start because linkmgmt is not correctly >> started: >> >> # svcs -l network/physical >> fmri svc:/network/physical:default >> name physical network interfaces >> enabled true >> state offline >> next_state none >> state_time Tue Apr 17 02:46:17 2007 >> restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default >> dependency require_all/none svc:/network/loopback (online) >> dependency require_all/restart svc:/network/linkmgmtd (maintenance) >> >> But how can I indicate that to not start linkmgmt in a local zone, and >> the two above services doesn't have to check the dependency on it? > > > I suppose changing the limkmgmt service to be a "do nothing" service > for local zones (so it can be enabled everywhere) is out of the question? > We could do that, Christine Tran gave me the same suggestion. But I am just wondering if there is any cleaner way, and how this is done for other services. For example, system/sysevent only exists in the global zone, and there are services depend on it (for example, milestone/single-user) does not seem to be depend on it in the local zone.
Thanks - Cathy
