[csw-maintainers] file location for our svc/smf stuff

[Mike Watters]

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Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> For example, the "shared across zones" example.
>>
>> cswclassutils works across zones, becuase it is a class action that
>> generates the files. The class action will run for each zone.
>>
>> Unfortunately, a 'static prototype file entry' will NOT.
>> /var/opt is local to a specific machine, and should never be shared
>> across zones.
> 
> I was recently trying to figure out how packaging works. I looked at
> Sun provided ssh packages. For instance, pkgmap of SUNWsshdr has this
> line:
> 
> 1 f manifest var/svc/manifest/network/ssh.xml 0444 root sys 2982 52600 110635026
> 
> Is it a static prototype file entry? This file is present on
> non-global zones as well as on the global zone. If it isn't a static
> prototype entry, how does it get to non-global zones?
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That particular file is part of smf configuration for ssh
I am not 100% sure how smf is handled in the global vs non-global zones
but I believe /var/svc/manifest/* is shared to all zones by default.

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Thanks,
Mike

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