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# 1  
Old 02-18-2007
Solaris 10 cron question
I have a script that needs to install a script the runs just before cron starts. Currently (for 9 and older), it simply finds the name of the cron script in /etc/rc?.d, decrements the number and creates a link.

For example, if cron starts with /etc/rc2.d/S75cron, the install script extracts the 75, decrements it by one and creates a symbolic link, S74script which points to /etc/init.d/script.

Under Solaris 10, it's using svcadm to start cron and I can't seem to find where that runs.

Pointers? I just inherited this box and am having fun (ha-ha) finding all the changes. Most aren't a big deal, I can find it via search if nothing else.

Thanks.

Carl
# 2  
Old 02-19-2007
Code:
-bash-3.00# svccfg
svc:> select svc:/system/cron
svc:/system/cron> listprop
usr                           dependency
usr/entities                  fmri     svc:/system/filesystem/local
usr/grouping                  astring  require_all
usr/restart_on                astring  none
usr/type                      astring  service
ns                            dependency
ns/entities                   fmri     svc:/milestone/name-services
ns/grouping                   astring  require_all
ns/restart_on                 astring  none
ns/type                       astring  service
general                       framework
general/action_authorization  astring  solaris.smf.manage.cron
general/entity_stability      astring  Unstable
general/single_instance       boolean  true
dependents                    framework
dependents/cron_multi-user    fmri     svc:/milestone/multi-user
startd                        framework
startd/ignore_error           astring  core,signal
start                         method
start/exec                    astring  /lib/svc/method/svc-cron
start/group                   astring  root
start/limit_privileges        astring  :default
start/privileges              astring  :default
start/project                 astring  :default
start/resource_pool           astring  :default
start/supp_groups             astring  :default
start/timeout_seconds         count    60
start/type                    astring  method
start/use_profile             boolean  false
start/user                    astring  root
start/working_directory       astring  :default
stop                          method
stop/exec                     astring  :kill
stop/timeout_seconds          count    60
stop/type                     astring  method
tm_common_name                template
tm_common_name/C              ustring  "clock daemon (cron)"
tm_man_cron                   template
tm_man_cron/manpath           astring  /usr/share/man
tm_man_cron/section           astring  1M
tm_man_cron/title             astring  cron
tm_man_crontab                template
tm_man_crontab/manpath        astring  /usr/share/man
tm_man_crontab/section        astring  1
tm_man_crontab/title          astring  crontab
svc:/system/cron>

# 3  
Old 02-19-2007
Ok, that is something I found. What I was looking for was when during the boot process does cron start? Granted cron is part of the svcadm stuff but when does svcadm start all the processes?

Thanks.

Carl
# 4  
Old 02-19-2007
legacy first, then when the dependencies have been met for the particular milestone and service in question.
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