[csw-users] SMF behaviour.

Peter Bonivart bonivart at blastwave.org
Mon Jan 7 20:40:12 CET 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 7:48 PM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Certain packages interact with the SMF database on SMF capable systems.
>
> Is there anyway to disable this behavior, and have it act like it is
> working with a system that does not have SMF capabilities? (So that my
> Solaris 8, Solaris 10, and SXCE Blastwave package operations are
> identical)

Here's what we follow to add SMF support to CSW packages. Maybe you
can find a way to make installation not pick up SMF capabilities on
your Solaris 10+ systems.

http://www.blastwave.org/standards/smf.html

I've never heard the request before but I guess it's a valid point.
:-) We have this autoenable_daemons variable we support (see below).
Maybe something like use_smf in csw.conf would be good to have?

http://www.blastwave.org/standards/csw.conf.html

-- 
/peter



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