Brian Gupta wrote: > Are you trying to register a new service? If so, my understanding is > that svd.configd needs to have been launched at system startup. > > So, while checking for svcadm will tell you if the system was built > with sfw, it will not let you know if you can register a new service. > (Feel free to correct my understanding, as I am still absorbing all > the changes in S10+). > > psck=svc.configd;echo -e "$psck is \c";pgrep $psck >/dev/null 2>&1; if > [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo running; else echo not running 1; fi > > If you need to actually start or stop the svc you need to replace also > check for svc.startd
The correct way to check if SMF is running from the shell is this: . /lib/svc/share/smf_include.sh and use smf_present function. This is documented in smf_method(5). -- Darren J Moffat
