Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:32:49 +0200 From: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, wbentley@futurecis.com Subject: Re: Idea for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080813133249.18962h78i0f90g4k@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080807202041.GB9084@pix.net> References: <b58b3fc7f4a07c9b6d55741e2ec25f47.squirrel@secure.futurecis.com> <20080807090230.GF1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20080807202041.GB9084@pix.net>
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Quoting "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net> (from Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:20:42 -0400): > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:02:30PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2008-Aug-06 19:14:51 -0400, wbentley@futurecis.com wrote: >> > In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. >> >> The main purpose of SMF appears to be to drum up business for Sun's >> training courses by radically changing Sol10 Administration for little >> benefit. > > The main purpose of SMF was to make it possible to programmatically > control the system and deal with the myriad of different types of > faults from the gazillion different things that people want to run > on machines. It's complex because it has to deal with the real > world. There's also some sort of functionality included, which is comparable =20 with daemontools (depending if you enable this in the xml description =20 or not). You could say this is included in your "deal with ... faults" =20 above, but for people not aware of this it may be nice to know. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Life may have no meaning, or, even worse, it may have a meaning of which you disapprove. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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