[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF "svcadm restart-or-clear-or-start" action

[Jim Klimov]

FWIW, I added this RFE to illumos bugtracker so it can be found
by people looking to do simple useful quests and develop illumos:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3596

On 2013-02-12 00:12, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>    While setting up systems there are occasions when an SMF service
> needs to be restarted - i.e. due to reconfiguration or its failure.
> The "svcadm restart" action only takes place for "online" services.
>
>    I wonder if it is a reasonable RFE to add some command (and what
> should it be called?) to try to "kick" a service into "online" state
> from whatever starting situation. For an already "online" service
> this would act as a "restart", for an "offline" service this would
> be an "enable", and a service in "maintenance" this would "clear".
>
>    This should likely do nothing with services in transitional state
> (currently becoming online or offline - though maybe request restart
> of the latter), and of course the action may fail again (likely into
> maintenance) if the service is still misconfigured.
>
>    It is just annoying to have to verify the service's current state
> before "kicking" it, though I've spawned a simple admin-script on
> my systems to do this chore ;)
>
>    I think the solution should be a part of the common SMF structure.
>
>    And it is a bite-size task for any enthusiast, now that we have
> a few :)
>
> //Jim Klimov