Utility for managing services

[Peter Kovacs 1.0rc]

Hi,

Is there a utility which makes it easy to create services? (Like chkconfig in linux.) I hoped SAM would include something, but it apparently doesn't.

Thanks
Peter

[Olivier Masse · Accepted solution]

Not to my knowledge, unless I'm mistake nyou're pretty much on your own and will need to setup your own SYSV scripts. They're less fancy than on most Linux distros, but pretty straightforward.

Doing a man on rc(1m) will bring up the details. If that can be of any help, there is also a template script in /sbin/init.d/template that you can use as a building block for your own. But beware its killproc() function, it sucks. :)

Olivier.

[Peter Kovacs 1.0rc]

Creating "manually" the scripts is fairly simple -- can be easily done based on the rc(1M) man page. (It seems as if there was a SYSV standard on this, because it is similar to what is used in most Linux distros and with Solaris pre-10.)

I'll see how it works at the next reboot. :-)