Comments on Igor Minar's Blog: Improving Satan and Solaris SMF

@rama, my fork does svcadm restart first, then sle...

2010-06-02T04:14:01.425-07:00

@rama, my fork does svcadm restart first, then sleep, then if no restart happened uses kill -9 to force the restart. I prefer svcadm restart over regular kill.

Also satan's activity is being logged in the SMF log for satan's service. Run "svcs -x satan" to see the log path.

+1 on Martin's comment. Also it would be nic...

2010-06-01T22:11:44.288-07:00

+1 on Martin's comment.

Also it would be nicer if Satan tried a kill, sleep, check if still running, kill -9 if still alive type thing. Forced kills are often unnecessary and may leave behind cruft that would prevent a clean restart (lock files for example.)

I think a log of restart event might be a good idea too. Saving it locally would be the easiest/most universal.

yeah, I was thinking about that. originally Satan ...

2010-06-01T05:12:45.238-07:00

yeah, I was thinking about that. originally Satan could be run as webservd:webservd because it used only kill -9 on webservd processes, with svcadm restart you need to be root or have a special role.

Nice! OpenSolaris FTW! You should add a user meth...

2010-06-01T04:17:36.094-07:00

Nice! OpenSolaris FTW!

You should add a user method credential to the Satan smf service, so you can limit the damage he can do :)

E.g.

But then you need to grant the daemon user privilege to restart the smf service also.