Michael,
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:07:20PM +0100, Michael A. Haines wrote:
> Can someone please help me the following.
>
> I have a manifest for starting/stopping the Sun Directory Service.
> Works fine. However, if I deliberately kill the slapd process is does
> not get restarted. The reason would appear to be that the stop method
> is not exiting cleanly, because stop-slapd is reporting "No ns-slapd PID
> file found. Server is probably not running".
>
> How can I inform the svc.startd that this is actually an OK response and
> to go on and run the start method ? Looking at the various docs and
> man pages etc. I can only see stuff about informing the restarter to
> ignore kill signals and cores, which is not what I want, of course. But
> I can't seem to find anything else :-(
svc.startd(1M) methods must follow the conventions set forth in
smf_method(5). In particular, your stop method should be returning
SMF_EXIT_OK (i.e. 0) in the case you describe. At the moment,
svc.startd is seeing:
SMF_EXIT_ERR_OTHER non-zero Any non-zero exit status from
a method is treated as an
unknown error. A series of
unknown errors can be diag-
nosed as a fault by the res-
tarter or on behalf of the
restarter.
which explains the behavior you observed.
Dave
