Hi Just pointing out that renaming start scripts was never supported, at least not by patching tools. Any bugs logged against sendmail getting re-enabled via patches are closed as not a bug with a workaround like that below. And I believe there were quite a few, which indicates a problem anyway.
But it is up to the product as to now to disable their product on startup, ie sendmail interface allowed the /etc/default/sendmail hack. Just patching tools never supported the renaming of rc scripts. I'm not trying to say it is a good or indeed fully supported way, but renaming start scripts was never supported. look at 4986050 for instance. But the good news is that such a mess can now easily be avoided as patches should not re-enable services that are stopped. If it does then it's probably a genuine bug in the patch itself. Enda Jonathan Adams wrote: >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 >> >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20060314/a5792fb7/attachment.html>
