Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > I see no controversional parts. > > > > I am not sure you're qualified to speak on that; understandably your > view is going to be somewhat subjective. > > > I see however missunderstandings and questions from people who most likely > > did not ask if they did k

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > Ah, just saw this -- so the case is now withdrawn rather than derailed. > I presume there is a real desire to have star at least, on Solaris > systems. If so, I hope you'll either come back with a fasttrack without > the controversial rmt (to me at least) rmt replac

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > One of the concerns here, is whether star/rmt are an as-is integration, > though. If we're replacing /etc/rmt, then it becomes a lot less clear > which of the two kinds of integration you identified star falls into. > My significant concern about rmt has still not

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > >>> I see no controversional parts. >>> >>> >> I am not sure you're qualified to speak on that; understandably your >> view is going to be somewhat subjective. >> >> >>> I see however missunderstandings and questions from pe

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Ken Erickson
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Margot Miller wrote: >> As I mentioned before, we could not ship the config file and/or disable >> the feature. >> >> In any case, the project team withdraws this fast track. > > Ah, just saw this -- so the case is now withdrawn rather than > derailed. I presume there is a

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Gary Winiger
> From margot.miller at sun.com Wed Mar 19 22:49:46 2008 > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:32:58 -0700 > From: Margot Miller > Subject: Re: Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, > and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]) > To: Gary Winiger > Cc: Josep

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > >> Ah, just saw this -- so the case is now withdrawn rather than derailed. >> I presume there is a real desire to have star at least, on Solaris >> systems. If so, I hope you'll either come back with a fasttrack without >> the controvers

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Margot Miller wrote: > As I mentioned before, we could not ship the config file and/or disable > the feature. > > In any case, the project team withdraws this fast track. Ah, just saw this -- so the case is now withdrawn rather than derailed. I presume there is a real desire to have star at least

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Margot Miller
As I mentioned before, we could not ship the config file and/or disable the feature. In any case, the project team withdraws this fast track. Margot Gary Winiger wrote: >> What I have gleaned from conversations with Liane and others >> is that non service configuration data can go into SMF repo

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Winiger
> What I have gleaned from conversations with Liane and others > is that non service configuration data can go into SMF repository. > This was news to me as I always thought it was just services > and their data. > > When dealing with open source software, if the administration and > syntax of tha

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:57:57PM -0700, Margot Miller wrote: > What I have gleaned from conversations with Liane and others > is that non service configuration data can go into SMF repository. > This was news to me as I always thought it was just services > and their data. OK, thanks. I guess t

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Liane Praza wrote: > Margot Miller wrote: >> When dealing with open source software, if the administration and >> syntax of that open source software is well known and spans across >> a wide set of operating systems it probably doesn't >> make sense to diverge from the source and put it in SMF. >>

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:22:25PM -0700, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > I'd like a little clarification around /etc/default/star. > > At a high level, the question is one of using SMF or a file. This It's not entirely clear to me, from reading the SMF usage BP, whether config files are OK for thi

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Liane Praza
Margot Miller wrote: > When dealing with open source software, if the administration and > syntax of that open source software is well known and spans across > a wide set of operating systems it probably doesn't > make sense to diverge from the source and put it in SMF. > I honestly do believe th

Config files in SMF or what (Re: star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008])

2008-03-19 Thread Margot Miller
What I have gleaned from conversations with Liane and others is that non service configuration data can go into SMF repository. This was news to me as I always thought it was just services and their data. When dealing with open source software, if the administration and syntax of that open source