Jean McCormack wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>>
>>> The use of virtual console was considered as a possibility if a more 
>>> detailed progress
>>> is required. Preliminary investigation indicates that this currently 
>>> is not in our microroot and would
>>> be too large to include there.
>>>
>>
>> Umm, please say more. We have long assumed that virtual consoles 
>> would be a core part of the product when they were ready to go, as 
>> they are on Linux distros, so I'm quite concerned about this.
> So we are back to considering a more detailed progress reported using 
> the virtual console.
>>
>> BTW, it was somewhat implicit in the way you described it, but I'd 
>> feel better if the explicit statement of a single log was made. I 
>> would suggest that, if we're not using the SMF service log for this 
>> (and we should be explicit about why we aren't), then I would expect 
>> the location of the actual log to be recorded in the service log so 
>> that there's some way of locating it other than "just knowing".
> OK. I'll make a more explicit statement that this log will be the only 
> log on the client.

Is the intent of the smf log file really to capture all log/error/debug 
info for
everything that service could possibly run, or is it supposed to only 
capture
log/error info for start/stop and other status from the service's method 
script?

I always thought it was the latter.

-ethan

> I have a question or three. If we make the only log the smf service 
> log, will the users who have become used to looking in the standard 
> install log area be confused? Is this even an issue? If so, would 
> creating a sym link from the historical log file to the smf log file 
> be appropriate?
>
> Jean
>
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