The definitive SMF document
Finally a document aggregates the SMF information that was disseminated everywhere on the internet. This very good document from Rob Romack covers the following topic :
- SMF basics
- SMF components
- Example SMF Manifest for a new service, including a description of all the existing attributes ( require_all, … )
- SMF at boot time + SMF and milestones (the one area that will likely trigger a bunch of calls to Sun Support )
- The funny demonstration of the fact that the SMF engine is tracking services with cycling dependencies
- An original use of the dependency system that would allow somebody to login as root only if the configured name service is not available
T: SMF, OpenSolaris, Solaris 10