Hi everyone.
The agreement that was reached was to allow alphanumeric characters,
hyphen and underscore only.
Thanks,
Jack
On 03/09/09 18:22, Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I've been working on bug 5091, the bug about service names and what
> they can contain. Being that at least a few of us have touched on
> this topic in one way or another this last week for installadm, I'm
> asking for a concensus on what to do.
>
> I'm augmenting my bugfix to remove what Sue added, which converts
> dots and spaces to underscores, since my bug is to not allow illegal
> characters in the first place. A new bug 7225 was also filed saying a
> space was replaced with a dot instead of an underscore. (I will claim
> this bug too, and probably close it as a dup of 5091.)
>
> Along with different people doing/filing different things, I've
> checked the installadm manpage and the AI design document and cannot
> find a specification on this, so I'm going to try reigning us all into
> an agreement. Here's what I suggest:
>
> - In general, the printable ASCII character set is OK to start with,
> for service names. (See email thread: "Please review: a few small AI
> fixes" of earlier today.)
> - Dots confuse the DNS server so they have to come out or be changed
> (see text of 5091). I suggest they come out.
> - Spaces in the service name cause other confusion and so should not
> be allowed. (Or they will need to be changed to another printable
> character if kept. I prefer underscore if we go with allowing spaces).
>
> So, I propose that the installadm commandline allows all printable
> ASCII characters except spaces or dots in a service name. Is this
> acceptable to everyone? I plan on discussing / getting resolution on
> this at tomorrow's bugcourt.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
>
> On 03/09/09 14:49, bugzilla-daemon at defect.opensolaris.org wrote:
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7225
>>
>> Summary: installadm(1M) fails to create service if service
>> name
>> contains space character
>> Classification: Development
>> Product: installer
>> Version: unspecified
>> Platform: ANY/Generic
>> OS/Version: OpenSolaris
>> Status: NEW
>> Severity: normal
>> Priority: P4
>> Component: installadm
>> AssignedTo: qa-installer at defect.opensolaris.org
>> ReportedBy: jan.damborsky at sun.com
>> CC: qa-installer at defect.opensolaris.org
>>
>>
>> When testing fix for bug 6320, I have tried to create service with name
>> containing space character. installadm failed with following message:
>>
>> # installadm create-service -n "_install_service 6320" -s
>> /export/home/iso/sparc/ai_sparc_6320_108.iso
>> /export/home/images/ai_sparc_6320_2
>> Setting up the target image at /export/home/images/ai_sparc_6320_2 ...
>> httpd (pid 598) already running
>> Registering the service _install_service.6320._OSInstall._tcp
>> The service _install_service.6320._OSInstall._tcp is not registered
>> Failed to register Install Service _install_service 6320.
>>
>> It is assumed to work in such a way that space character is to be
>> replaced with
>> underscore. However, space character was for some reason replaced
>> with '.'
>> (dot)
>> instead.
>>
>>
>
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