I logged into one of my Solaris 10 hosts today to add some additional firewall rules, and noticed that the ipfilter service was in the maintenance state: $ svcs -x ipfilter svc:/network/ipfilter:default (IP Filter) State: maintenance since Sat Oct 28 15:56:30 2006 Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 2. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: [...]
I use the ORCA utility to graph various system and application metrics, and have recently run into a few problems. The application periodically crashes for no apparaent reason, and I haven’t had time to debug the issue (once I get a core file I will figure this out). Since I rely on the graphs to [...]
While reading through my daily BLOG roll, I came across a link to a well written document on converting RC scripts to SMF manifests. I plan to use this as a guide when adding dependencies to the manifests I am developing.
