A peek while bug flushing
With only a few days of exposure on the varied system configurations around here, there have been a few bugs raised against smf
(5), the new service management facility. (I suppose it’s similar to a pack of hounds flushing pheasants during a hunt (although, ultimately, whom the hounds chase and whom a gun is pointed at does differ from a hunt).) What’s more exciting is that, as the kinks get smoothed out, people are instead starting to discuss possibilities. But I thought I’d show a little tiny piece of output instead. Here’s the output of the new services listing command, svcs
(1), looking only at the major milestones of the startup process:
$ svcs *milestone* STATE STIME FMRI online 11:03:56 svc:/milestone/devices:default online 11:04:04 svc:/milestone/single-user:default online 11:04:07 svc:/milestone/name-services:default online 11:04:11 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online 11:04:18 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
What name services am I running? Examine the name services milestone more closely:
$ svcs -d milestone/name-services:default STATE STIME FMRI disabled 11:03:51 svc:/network/ldap/client:default disabled 11:03:51 svc:/network/nis/server:default disabled 11:03:51 svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default online 11:04:04 svc:/network/nis/client:default online 11:04:07 svc:/network/dns/client:default
NIS, with a bit of DNS for seasoning. What’s it take to be a NIS client these days?
$ svcs -p svc:/network/nis/client:default STATE STIME FMRI online 11:04:04 svc:/network/nis/client:default 11:04:04 100202 ypbind
(But you knew that already.) More later.