smf(5) ended up in two stories on slashdot today. In “Torvalds on Opening Solaris”, elmegil observed I’m rather amused to see Sun be the first to implement a replacement for the old init and have it done. I can’t say I know who thought it up first, but Solaris 10 SMF is the first working [...]

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(I know I need to wrap up the cal(1) contest. I also need to finish about three smf(5) blog entries. I am also mostly keeping up with the forum/list/newsgroup traffic on smf(5). I also have a few more bugfixes to get into Solaris 10 first. But a small dispatch seems necessary.) One of the neat [...]

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The Marina Shores Village site has been removed. I haven’t done enough math yet to even speculate, so I’ll merely point it out.

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Darren has a neat example of using zenity(1) and smf(5) to make an “on-off” switch for his laptop’s network connection. The result: where “Up” brings up network/physical and “Down” shuts it down—convenient for Solaris laptop users. zenity, by Glynn Foster, makes writing little panels like this so easy I suspect there might be a naescent [...]

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I was a bit surprised by how little discussion of smf(5) I’d found (or how little emotional discussion, perhaps). comp.unix.solaris regulars figured things out moments after the images were posted to the Download Center, while the discussion of Predictive Self-Healing forum at BigAdmin focused on futures and further integration with management software. But it turns [...]

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I mentioned that I’d converted a few of the F/OSS software packages that we use on our home system. Of course, the point of smf(5) isn’t to force you to rewrite all of your init.d scripts—it’s to force you to encourage your vendor to do so. (Wait, that’s not right, either.) I’ll come back to [...]

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The semi-official election results for San Mateo Country have been posted. For the two elections we were watching at blueslugs.com: In the county, Ira Ruskin (D) [37,877] defeated Steve Poizner (R) [29,833]. This margin is substantially narrower than other state or national elections in San Mateo County. These results need to be added with the [...]

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Our electrical power at home has been sagging occassionally. It tripped yesterday for a couple of seconds: enough for everything without batteries or some capacitance to reset. (So clocks set yesterday, and again today.) Our main server went as well, and I noticed one or two services—running under very early Solaris 10—didn’t come back up [...]

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We’ve posted an smf(5) quickstart guide and a preliminary service developer introduction (written by Liane), and are listening in the Predictive Self-Healing forum. If you like, comment to let me know when the images hit the Download Center—they’ll most likely say “b69″ somewhere in the filenames.

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Google (and the other search engines, I’m sure) are amusingly tenacious: if you search for “solaris” and the smf(5) command of your choice, you’ll start to find early content deep within the sun.com web tree as well as other Solaris and Unix sites. (These keywords will also deliver information about holiday resorts, although I can’t [...]

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