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Subject: Re: svn commit: r200743 - in head/usr.sbin: . service
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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.