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List:       opensolaris-smf-discuss
Subject:    [smf-discuss] RE: Service dependency
From:       rolnif () mac ! com (John Martinez)
Date:       2005-09-16 8:42:31
Message-ID: AE038E39-2D86-486D-9F78-43E2DCFEB693 () mac ! com
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On Sep 16, 2005, at 1:10 AM, j.van.nieuwenhoven@accenture.com wrote:


> Hello,
>
> Talking about the principle of least surprise, has somebody mentionned
> the surprise of Solaris students without too much SMF knowledge who
> learn about NFS?
> When they "#svcadm enable nfs/server" before having touched the dfstab
> file and that they see in the log or "#svcs -x" output that the server
> has been disabled by an adminstrator...
>
> Behaviour is not different from previous Solaris releases, right,
> everything is explained when you read the start script, also right but
> still SMF could use its wondeful logging capabilities to provide more
> info.
>


I've been going into /var/svc/log and reading the log files in there.  
For example, you could read network-nfs-server:default.log to get  
what you want (nfs/server doesn't give you much).

If that still doesn't give you what you want, I go read the "new"  
startup scripts in /lib/svc/method. The issue is with these scripts.  
They don't give you much output. If they did, /var/svc/log would be  
that much more useful.

I guess you can go play around with these scripts, create your own  
error messages and see how well it works in error conditions like the  
one you explain.

-john

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