Re: Setting daemon as last thing to startup with SMF

In <1143755341.703148.160970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> googlegroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Darren Dunham wrote:
Hmm... is that a hard requirement? I mean, how does it deal with things
that are started by cron or inetd that are technically "after" the boot?

Actually it is kinda a hard requirement... The software monitors system
processes and stuff and generates alerts if the processes aren't
running. It doesn't make sense to start the monitor before we start the
dataserver for example. Since the monitor can monitor anything, it
needs to run at the very end to avoid unnecessary alerts.

Doesn't SMF already monitor system processes and optionally restart
ones that fail? Perhaps you can do what you need by cooperating with
SMF? Alternatively, you could have your system be a restarter, so
that it would start all of the other processes, like inetd does.

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