Illumos/OpenSolaris SMF to FreeBSD

[Diane Bruce]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 02:15:48PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <b626122e-8b77-91ff-d481-11849c6b81fd at FreeBSD.org>, Pedro 
> Giffuni wr
> ites:
> > Hi Cy;
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What are people's thoughts about porting Illumos Service Management
> > > Facility (SMF) to FreeBSD? The Solaris SMF didn't replace their init(8),
> > > it's started by their init(8) through inittab -- we could use ttys or
> > > replace init.
> > >
> > 
> > Is this something that could live in ports ... at least for a while?
> > It appears there are many options and it's great to be able to choose,
> > but I doubt we want to compromise right now on which,
> > 
> > > Like DTrace and ZFS, SMF is CDDL. Does that matter?
> > 
> > Yes, everything matters. As with all weak-copyleft, a requisite is
> > that it cannot be made mandatory.
> 
> I wasn't aware that this was an issue to some vendors. db@ and I discussed 
> it very briefly on IRC. I suppose it could be made optional however that 
> would mean every start-up script would need to be duplicated in both 
> environments and that doesn't make any sense. As nice as it would be, it's 
> probably not meant to be.

bleh. how about an OPEN SMF ? ;)

> 
> Having said all that, I don't think that Apple's launchd was meant for 
> servers or the enterprise, not to mention they closed-sourced it. We 
> probably have to write our own.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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> 
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> 
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