From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sat Jun 11 21:37:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A054BAF00FC for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 21:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (unknown [IPv6:2620:64:0:1:223:7dff:fea2:c8f2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D61202E; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 21:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from night.db.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diana.db.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1422AA4A5; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:36:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: by night.db.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AF6C1CDE4; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:37:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:37:09 -0400 From: Diane Bruce To: Cy Schubert Cc: Pedro Giffuni , FreeBSD-arch list Subject: Re: Illumos/OpenSolaris SMF to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20160611213709.GA7314@night.db.net> References: <201606112115.u5BLFmOL088454@slippy.cwsent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201606112115.u5BLFmOL088454@slippy.cwsent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 21:37:12 -0000 On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 02:15:48PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message , Pedro > Giffuni wr > ites: > > Hi Cy; > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > What are people's thoughts about porting Illumos Service Management > > > Facility (SMF) to FreeBSD? The Solaris SMF didn't replace their init(8), > > > it's started by their init(8) through inittab -- we could use ttys or > > > replace init. > > > > > > > Is this something that could live in ports ... at least for a while? > > It appears there are many options and it's great to be able to choose, > > but I doubt we want to compromise right now on which, > > > > > Like DTrace and ZFS, SMF is CDDL. Does that matter? > > > > Yes, everything matters. As with all weak-copyleft, a requisite is > > that it cannot be made mandatory. > > I wasn't aware that this was an issue to some vendors. db@ and I discussed > it very briefly on IRC. I suppose it could be made optional however that > would mean every start-up script would need to be duplicated in both > environments and that doesn't make any sense. As nice as it would be, it's > probably not meant to be. bleh. how about an OPEN SMF ? ;) > > Having said all that, I don't think that Apple's launchd was meant for > servers or the enterprise, not to mention they closed-sourced it. We > probably have to write our own. > > > -- > Cheers, > Cy Schubert > FreeBSD UNIX: Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org > > The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db