[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openldap SMF broken

[Matt Connolly]

On 10/05/2012, at 9:47 PM, Andreas Stenius <andreas.stenius at astekk.se> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Read section "A few twists" from
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Creating+new+services
> 

Ha, thanks! That's exactly the page I read but couldn't find again!!


> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 
> 2012/5/10 Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to set up openldap on oi151a4. I've set up the config files
>> and can run it from the command line, but it took a bit of stuffing
>> around to get its SMF service to run. Even with the correct config,
>> the service starts and then fails, presumably because the start method
>> didn't return within the allowed 30 seconds time frame.
>> 
>> I changed the startup script by putting a '&' at the end of the `exec
>> $SLAPD` line so that the server ran in the background from the start
>> script, and now it seems to be working.
>> 
>> Is that the best way to do it?? I thought I remember reading somewhere
>> that you could configure a SMF service to run a service as a long
>> running program without requiring it to daemonize/fork. Couldn't find
>> it though.
>> 
>> 
>> -Matt
>>