On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:25:12PM +0000, Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: > Hi > A lot of the problems in the old system came about because people were > unfamiliar with how to stop services re-starting > > for instance sendmail is a classic example, > people would mv S88sendmail to say s88sendmail to stop sendmail starting > again on reboot. > but a sendmail patch would then just re-instate the S88sendmail later > > The correct method is to add "exit" to /etc/default/sendmail, renaming > start script's was never supported I believe.
"correct"? In what way would you classify that as "correct"? That seems like a hack that took advantage of how the default file is read in, not a supportable way to turn sendmail off. - jonathan > > Christine Tran wrote: > > >Moving to smf-discuss. > > > >No, it will not. That's the whole beauty of SMF, services that you want > >not to run, stays off, and vice versa. No more patching something that > >you've moved to old.Sxxblahblah and finding that it's back and running, > >unexpectedly, after a patch. > > > >CT > > > >PETER WILK wrote On 03/10/06 16:17,: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >> > >>>IHAC that wants to know if a SMF service is disabled and a patch gets > >>>installed > >>>that touches that SMF service will that service change state (ie: > >>>disabled.enabled, restart) > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>Peter > >>> > >>>PS: please respond to me directly for I am not on this alias > >>> > >>> > >>-- > >><http://www.sun.com> * Peter Wilk * > >>Technical Support Engineer > >>*Sun Microsystems, Inc.* > >>1 Network Drive > >>Burlington, MA 01803-0903 > >>M/S UBUR04-206 > >>Phone 800-872-4786 > >>(opt-1), (opt-1), (case #) > >>Email peter.wilk at sun.com > >><http://www.sun.com> > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >smf-discuss mailing list > >smf-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development
