From: Donovan, Jeffrey \(Jeff\), INFOT (jmd@att.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 21:40:00 EDT
Question: good explanation about what the default means at the end of a
Solaris 10 svcs output ie;
online 21:55:12 svc:/system/fmd:default
Thanks to the following:
Darren Dunham:
It's the "instance" of the service.
Most services only need one (default) instance. However some services
might want to have multiple instances.
The best examples probably come from the services that don't show
'default'.
Like 'smtp'. The system comes with 'smtp:sendmail', but you might
instead have a service for 'smtp:postfix'.
You'd need a different instance if settings between the two werent
identical. I can see that there could be some sendmail specific
settings (like the startup mode) kept in SMF.
In most cases that's not true and the only instance is left as
'default'.
Coy Hill:
it's the default instance. For example, the smtp service has FMRI
svc:/network/smtp, and the instance of it that is sendmail is
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail. If another vendor wanted to deliver, for
example, postfix or exim, that vendor would deliver:
svc:/network/smtp:exim or svc:/network/smtp:postfix
Many many services only have one instance of them (http being another
example
where one could have multiple), so you get the :default.
JV711:
RTFM
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