[osol-arc] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] libcmd must die [PSARC-EXT/2006/561 Timeout: 09/05/2006]

[Joseph Kowalski]

> From: Gary Winiger <gww at eng.sun.com>
...
> > services should be considered obsolete.  Services should use SMF.
> > Applications should use ???  Opps!  Problem here.   8^)
> 
> 
> 	Transient service properties.  See Lianep and the sysadmin
> 	work being done.  I think it's on the smf opensolaris stuff.
> 	http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vpanels/
> 	AFAICT naming hasn't been worked out.  So a made up example
> 	might be:  transient service "login" properties:
> 	"timezone", "ulimit", "console", "passreq", "altshell",
> 	"path", "supath", "timeout", "umask", "syslog", "sleeptime",
> 	"disabletime", "retries", "syslog_failed_logins"
> 
> 	
> 	ABICT, that's the current thought.

I'm not sure I know how to parse this.

Is the high level message that there is work in progress such that
we will have an answer for applications much like SMF is the answer
for services, but that answer isn't quite here yet?

If I got that right, we can talk about obsoleting /etc/default when
that answer is here and somewhat accepted.

- jek3