On 9/11/06, Fu Zhi-jun <Zhijun.Fu at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,all,
>
> Recently I met a problem in using smf.
> I used "svccfg -s ${FMRI} setprop config/$SERVICE_ENABLED = true" to
> enable a service,and then used "svcprop -p config/$SERVICE_ENABLED
> $FMRI" to retrieve the value to judge whether the service is enabled. To
> my surprise, svcprop told me the service is 'disabled'.
> Later, I learned from others that svccfg operates on 'current' set, and
> svcprop retrieves value from 'running" snapshot, so I need to use
> "svcadm refresh $FMRI" to copy the value to running set, or use '-c' to
> let svcprop retrieve value from 'current' set.
>
> Then my question is, why we need the running snapshot? Isn't it easier
> to use only the current set other than syncing between the two sets?At least for scripting, it will be disruptive to the service if SMF syncs for every in-transit svccfg invocations. -- Just me, Wire ...
