FYI. Jack stopped by and we resolved the issue. -tony
Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I work on the install team, and am working on an ITU-style menu the user > will first see when booting the text-mode CD. This menu selects the > installer and Device Driver Utility among other things. The menu is a > ksh93 script started as an SMF service. The environment given to it via > SMF is different than a usual login environment, and signals do not work. > > Attached are the files which I put in /lib/svc/method, > /var/svc/manifest/... and the menu itself which goes in /usr/sbin. > > The intent is for the script to mask signals (^C, abort, ^Z,^\, SIGTERM) > so it cannot be exited, but to allow signals to be active in the > commands it runs (installer, DDU, shell). Examples: I want to be able > to run sleep from my script and ^C out of it; I want the shell run from > my menu to see a ^C for processing. > Using the attached files as a starting point, I tried modifying the > manifest file to look more like what the original install-setup manifest > (old installer) looked like (to depend on svc:/milestone/single-user, > and to add to the startd property group: > <propval name-'need_session' type='boolean' value='true' /> > > I also tried modifying the 'ignore_error' property, but then I checked > the ARC case (PSARC/2004/524) and it turns out the ignore_error deals > with errors requiring a restart, not what I am interested in. > > I looked at console-login service to see how it works and tried a > dependency on svc:/milestone/sysconfig as it had; that didn't work either. > > Any suggestions? I'd greatly appreciate any help getting this to work. > > Thanks, > Jack > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
