Archive for January, 2010
Making Solaris SMF ignore core dumps in child processes
I can never ever remember how to do this and googling for it always takes ages, so I thought I’d jot it down here.
When Solaris SMF starts a process, it tracks that process and all its children. If any of those children coredump, SMF treats it as a failure and puts the state into maintenance mode. Not terribly useful if you’re launching buggy software like FFMpeg.
The solution? Simple! Slap this in your SMF Manifest just below an </exec_method> block (within the same XML level as the <exec_method>), eg:
<exec_method name='stop' type='method' exec=':kill' timeout_seconds='60'>
<method_context/>
</exec_method>
<property_group name='startd' type='framework'>
<!-- sub-process core dumps shouldn't restart
session -->
<propval name='ignore_error' type='astring'
value='core,signal' />
</property_group>
1 comment January 19th, 2010
VLC on Solaris 10
Some helpful chap has compiled up VLC for Solaris 10. Useful!
Add comment January 8th, 2010