Quoth Renaud Manus on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:19:46PM +0200: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re:[smf-discuss] How to make a service go into maintenance. > From: Brian Utterback <Brian.Utterback at Sun.COM> > To: Renaud.Manus at Sun.COM > Cc: smf-discuss at opensolaris.org > Date: Fri Apr 27 2007 17:57:37 GMT+0200 (CEST) > > >I have a question. In the man page for smf_maintain_instance, it says > >that it can take two flags, SMF_TEMPORARY and SMF_IMMEDIATE. It says > >that SMF_TEMPORARY means that the state lasts only for the lifetime > >of the current system instance (SMF-speak for until reboot?) and > > yes
Yes, though note that we don't have persistent maintenance (yet), so leaving the flag off will still act temporarily. > >that SMF_IMMEDIATE takes place immediately killing any running methods. > >By "running method", does that include the actual daemon process? > > yes Yes, though immediate is intended to mean that SMF will put the service into maintenance without trying to stop the service if it's running. Ordinarily we try to stop the service. David
