Opinions on SMF

[John Marino]

On 9/10/2013 13:54, joris dedieu wrote:
> 2013/9/10 Petr Janda <elekktretterr at exemail.com.au>:
>>
>> Have a look at the manifests, vast majority of them don't need shell
>> scripting.
> 
> I disagree this point.
> Here a basic OpenIndiana distribution (SunOS blandine1 5.11 oi_151a7
> i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris) :
> 
> - 172 manifests in /lib/svc/manifest
> - for 104 start_method is exec='/lib/svc/method/something
> - all somethings in /lib/svc/method/ are shell scripts (using randomly
> /bin/sh /sbin/sh /usr/bin/sh /bin/ksh /bin/ksh93 and /usr/bin/ksh -p)
> - 59 entries online on 98 are using shell scripts to start
>

Do those shell scripts belong to the program itself as opposed to a
script that simply launched the executable?

I guess I'd have to comb each of the 59 to ascertain...