Quoth Tim Foster on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:38:12AM +0100:
> > I don't think this use case will be common, and it would be quite
> > awkward to architect & implement. Given that we think a cron restarter
> > would probably be a good candidate for SMF services anyway, I think we
> > would either close this RFE as will not fix, or use it to track the cron
> > restarter.
>
> Excellent - Nico was also talking about an extended cron service a while
> back at:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=8643&tstart=60#37172
> (and I found an old smf-discuss thread along the same lines at
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2941 )
>
> Is there any progress on this, or an RFE open for the proposed cron
> restarter or the smf-aware-cron ?
There has been no work done on a cron restarter. There is a related
RFE:
6399739 SMF should provide cron-like service management
David
