Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:56:27 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: brooks@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dougb@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svn commit: r200743 - in head/usr.sbin: . service Message-ID: <20100108165627.GB62775@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20091221.210850.220301508585541755.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <4B2DD2A1.8060907@FreeBSD.org> <ygeaaxec7oz.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20091220183519.GB64667@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20091221.210850.220301508585541755.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20091220183519.GB64667@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> > Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : This is where the value of service(8) would lie for me. The ability > : to not have things work by accident due to my environment and then break > : at reboot would be be very helful. > > I'd love to have some way to say 'If the daemon dies, please restart > it. But don't be so eager about it that your attempts to keep it > running interfere with things like service' The service management stuff introduced in Solaris 10 has this capability, as well as some other nice bits of sophistication. For instance, when a service is restarted, it will automatically restart any services whose operation depends on that service. Anyone working on services might want to peruse their svcs(1) and smf(5) for ideas.
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