Quoth Brian Utterback on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:32:28PM -0400: > The daemon in question is xntpd. If xntpd decides that the offset is > greater than some threshold, instead of correcting it, it prints an > error message and exits. The intent was that a human needs to respond > and decide how to fix the problem. > > That was fine up until Solaris 10. With Solaris 10 the restarter will > see that xntpd has exited and then re-start it. The start up method > runs ntpdate, which does not have the threshold and will set the clock. > The xntpd deamon then starts up and goes on its merry way. So, to go > back to the previous behavior, we want the restarter to not restart > xntpd. So, that's why we want to go into maintenance mode.
Ok. You should invoke smf_maintain_instance() with SMF_TEMPORARY, and then sleep until SMF kills you. David
