[bug-notifications] [fetchmail 0004037]: Set AUTOENABLE to NO to suppress SMF warnings on initial installation?

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http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4037 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                james
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Project:                    fetchmail
Issue ID:                   4037
Category:                   packaging
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
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Date Submitted:             2009-11-13 18:05 CET
Last Modified:              2009-11-14 15:39 CET
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Summary:                    Set AUTOENABLE to NO to suppress SMF warnings on
initial installation?
Description: 
On installation cswfetchmail does not have a configuration file and goes
into maintenance mode. 

Nov 13 17:51:49 ray3 svc.startd[7]: network/cswfetchmail:default failed
repeatedly: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)

# tail /var/svc/log/network-cswfetchmail:default.log
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Executing stop method
("/var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswfetchmail stop") ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Method "stop" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Executing start method
("/var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswfetchmail start") ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Executing stop method
("/var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswfetchmail stop") ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Method "stop" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 13 17:51:49 Restarting too quickly, changing state to maintenance ]

# ksh -x /var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswfetchmail start
+ findConf
+ [ -z  ]
+ exit 0


Could you include the following comment in the init script so that
i.cswinitsmf won't enable the SMF service right away?

#AUTOENABLE no

See http://opencsw.wikidot.com/cswclassutils-package#toc2 for reference.
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 (0006987) james (manager) - 2009-11-14 15:39
 http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4037#c6987 
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#AUTOENABLE no is of no use because it prevents restart after install on
update (overriding previous preserve state).


The underlying problem is in the mechanism which assumes there should be a
maintenance state because nothing is running.  A workaround is to add
"sleep 99" before exiting to fool it.

There should a return value to indicate the state is disabled and not
running.   It's a non error state and normally exit 0 indicates no error
which is why I make it exit 0. exit 1 as per
http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4037 puts it into maintenance
always.  Not wanting to get into a discussion about svc being a deficient
system (because it exists) but couldn't/doesn't cswclasssutil put a layer
between the package script and the system?