2008/015 svccfg refresh subcommand

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:47:04AM -0800, Liane Praza wrote:
> James Carlson wrote:
> >> I hope this is just trivial discussion (;-}), but it seems to me that
> >> having both "svccfg refresh" and "svcadm refresh" is potentially
> >> confusing for administrators.  I suspect that they're confused about
> >> the cfg/adm split already (we've certainly seen confusion with the
> >> zone* commands), and this just adds a little fuel.
> > 
> > If the definition of the "svccfg refresh" user interface provides all
> > the needed functionality needed for a generic SMF "refresh" operation,
> > and it seems it does, then is it possible to work towards making
> > "svcadm refresh" obsolete?
> 
> It's possible, but I'm not sure it's desirable.
> 
> [...]

My suggestion is that if we do anything in this direction that we do
this: leave svcadm as is (don't obsolete any part of it), and add some
svcadm functionality to svccfg, so you can refresh/restart/enable/
disable/clear/degrade/restore services straight from svccfg.

Nico
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