On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:43:37AM -0400, Mark Haywood wrote: > >What is the console message ? > > As mentioned in the case: > > "Similarly, if the IPMP service is disabled while IPMP groups are > configured, the service stop method will display warning messages to > the console."
This is useless: the user doing the stopping won't be on the console, and the message will be useless noise at shutdown time (since the service can't tell if a stop method invocation is for shutdown or some other purpose; see aside below). Besides, there are plenty of services that should be running when some feature is enabled, and which don't output such messages. For example, in.iked (if the output of ipsecconf -l shows protect rules then chances are you need in.iked running, and if you don't it's because you're using manually-keyed SAs, which is not a good idea). There are other examples (NFS? check. idmap? check. etcetera). Even if such a message were desirable, you could still have it be output by in.mpathd rather than having to create a stop method script. But just get rid of this message. [It might be nice if SMF could distinguish between kinds of service stops. Some services might care whether they are being stopped by a sysadmin, stopped as part of restarting, or stopped as part of shutting down the system. In the first case a service might well refuse to stop and have its stop method return an error, because not running when the service is absolutely necessary could result in a broken system. But that's not this case, and in.mpathd does not seem like case where preventing manual service stops is crucial. Though an RFE against SMF for this is probably a good idea.] Nico -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
