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System Administration Commands svc.startd(1M) NAME svc.startd - Service Management Facility master restarter SYNOPSIS /lib/svc/bin/svc.startd svc:/system/svc/restarter:default DESCRIPTION svc.startd is the master restarter daemon for Service Management Facil- ity (SMF) and the default restarter for all services. svc.startd starts, stops, and restarts services based on administrative requests, system failures, or application failures. svc.startd maintains service state, as well as being responsible for managing faults in accordance with the dependencies of each service. svc.startd is invoked automatically during system startup. It is restarted if any failures occur. svc.startd should never be invoked directly. See smf_restarter(5) for information on configuration and behavior com- mon to all restarters. svcs(1) reports status for all services managed by the Service Configu- ration Facility. svcadm(1M) allows manipulation of service instances with respect to the service's restarter. Environment Variables Environment variables with the "SMF_" prefix are reserved and may be overwritten. svc.startd supplies the "SMF_" environment variables specified in smf_method(5) to the method. PATH is set to "/usr/sbin:/usr/bin" by default. By default, all other environment variables supplied to svc.startd are those inherited from init(1M). Duplicate entries are reduced to a single entry. The value used is undefined. Environment entries that are not prefixed with "<name>=" are ignored. Restarter Options svc.startd is not configured by command line options. Instead, configu- ration is read from the service configuration repository. You can use svccfg(1M) to set all options and properties. The following configuration variables in the options property group are available to developers and administrators: boot_messages An astring (as defined in scf_value_is_type; see scf_value_cre- ate(3SCF)) that describes the default level of messages to print to the console during boot. The supported message options include quiet and verbose. The quiet option prints minimal messages to con- sole during boot. The verbose option prints a single message per service started to indicate success or failure. You can use the boot -m option to override the boot_messages setting at boot time. See kernel(1M). logging Control the level of global service logging for svc.startd. An astring (as defined in scf_value_is_type; see scf_value_cre- ate(3SCF)) that describes the default level of messages to log to syslog (see syslog(3C) and svc.startd's global logfile, /var/svc/log/svc.startd.log. The supported message options include quiet, verbose, and debug. The quiet option sends error messages requiring administrative intervention to the console, syslog and svc.startd's global logfile. The verbose option sends error mes- sages requiring administrative intervention to the console, syslog and svc.startd's global logfile, and information about errors which do not require administrative intervention to svc.startd's global logfile. A single message per service started is also sent to the console. The debug option sends svc.startd debug messages to svc.startd's global logfile, error messages requiring administra- tive intervention to the console, syslog and svc.startd's global logfile, and a single message per service started to the console. milestone An FMRI which determines the milestone used as the default boot level. Acceptable options include only the major milestones: svc:/milestone/single-user:default svc:/milestone/multi-user:default svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default or the special values all or none. all represents an idealized milestone that depends on every service. none is a special mile- stone where no services are running apart from the master svc:/sys- tem/svc/restarter:default. By default, svc.startd uses all, a syn- thetic milestone that depends on every service. If this property is specified, it overrides any initdefault setting in inittab(4). system/reconfigure Indicates that a reconfiguration reboot has been requested. Ser- vices with actions that must key off of a reconfiguration reboot may check that this property exists and is set to 1 to confirm a reconfiguration boot has been requested. This property is managed by svc.startd and should not be modified by the administrator. Configuration errors, such as disabling svc.startd are logged by sys- log, but ignored. SERVICE STATES Services managed by svc.startd can appear in any of the states described in smf(5). The state definitions are unmodified by this restarter. SERVICE REPORTING In addition to any logging done by the managed service, svc.startd pro- vides a common set of service reporting and logging mechanisms. Reporting properties svc.startd updates a common set of properties on all services it manages. These properties are a common interface that can be used to take action based on service instance health. The svcs(1) command can be used to easily display these properties. restarter/state restarter/next_state The current and next (if currently in transition) state for an instance. restarter/auxiliary_state A caption detailing additional information about the current instance state. The auxiliary state available for services managed by svc.startd is: maintenance fault_threshold_reached stop_method_failed administrative_request custom disabled custom restarter/auxiliary_custom_state When restarter/auxiliary_custom_state is set to custom, a method- provided caption detailing additional information about the current instance state. restarter/auxiliary_reason When restarter/auxiliary_custom_state is set to custom, a method- provided string detailing additional information about the current instance state. restarter/auxiliary_textdomain When restarter/auxiliary_custom_state is set to custom, a method- provided textdomain in which restarter/auxiliary_reason may be localized. restarter/state_timestamp The time when the current state was reached. restarter/contract The primary process contract ID, if any, that under which the ser- vice instance is executing. Logs By default, svc.startd provides logging of significant restarter actions for the service as well as method standard output and standard error file descriptors to /var/svc/log/service:instance.log. The level of logging to system global locations like /var/svc/log/svc.startd.log and syslog is controlled by the options/logging property. SERVICE DEFINITION When developing or configuring a service managed by svc.startd, a com- mon set of properties are used to affect the interaction between the service instance and the restarter. Methods The general form of methods for the fork/exec model provided by svc.startd are presented in smf_method(5). The following methods are supported as required or optional by services managed by svc.startd. refresh Reload any appropriate configuration parameters from the repository or config file, without interrupting service. This is often implemented using SIGHUP for system daemons. If the service is unable to recognize configuration changes without a restart, no refresh method is provided. This method is optional. start Start the service. Return success only after the application is available to consumers. Fail if a conflicting instance is already running, or if the service is unable to start. This method is required. stop Stop the service. In some cases, the stop method can be invoked when some or all of the service has already been stopped. Only return an error if the service is not entirely stopped on method return. This method is required. If the service does not need to take any action in a required method, it must specify the :true token for that method. svc.startd honors any method context specified for the service or any specific method. The method expansion tokens described in smf_method(5) are available for use in all methods invoked by svc.startd. Properties An overview of the general properties is available in smf(5). The spe- cific way in which these general properties interacts with svc.startd follows: general/enabled If enabled is set to true, the restarter attempts to start the ser- vice once all its dependencies are satisfied. If set to false, the service remains in the disabled state, not running. general/restarter If this FMRI property is empty or set to svc:/sys- tem/svc/restarter:default, the service is managed by svc.startd. Otherwise, the restarter specified is responsible (once it is available) for managing the service. general/single_instance If single_instance is set to true, svc.startd only allows one instance of this service to transition to online or degraded at any time. Additionally, svc.startd managed services can define the optional prop- erties listed below in the startd and logfile_attributes property group. startd/duration The duration property defines the service's model. It can be set to transient, child also known as "wait" model services, or contract (the default). startd/ignore_error The ignore_error property, if set, specifies a comma-separated list of ignored events. Legitimate string values in that list are core and signal. The default is to restart on all errors. startd/need_session The need_session property, if set to true, indicates that the instance should be launched in its own session. The default is not to do so. startd/utmpx_prefix The utmpx_prefix string property defines that the instance requires a valid utmpx entry prior to start method execution. The default is not to create a utmpx entry. logfile_attributes/permissions The permissions string property defines the file permissions for the logfile created by svc.startd(1M). The value of permissions should be in 3 digit octal format. The default is to use '644' for the logile permissions. SERVICE METHOD SPECIAL REQUESTS A service may use smf_method_exit() to request special consideration for the state transition in progress. If such requests are made by means of exit(), without using smf_method_exit(), they will be treated as described in SERVICE FAILURES below. When a start or refresh method requests $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_DISABLE, svc.startd will temporarily disable the service and place it in the disabled state without running its stop method. If appropriate, the start or refresh method may explicitly invoke the stop method to grace- fully shut down any processes it may have started prior to returning $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_DISABLE. When a contract service requests $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_TRANSIENT from a start or refresh method, svc.startd will complete the state transition cur- rently in progress, and will treat the service as if it were transient. When a stop method requests $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_DISABLE or $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_TRANSIENT, svc.startd will treat it as if it had returned $SMF_EXIT_ERR_OK. When a non-contract service requests $SMF_EXIT_TEMP_TRANSIENT from a start or refresh method, svc.startd will treat it as if it had returned $SMF_EXIT_ERR_OK. SERVICE FAILURE Except under the conditions described in SERVICE METHOD SPECIAL REQUESTS, svc.startd assumes that a method has failed if it returns a non-zero exit code or if fails to complete before the timeout specified expires. If $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG or $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL is returned, svc.startd immediately places the service in the maintenance state. For all other failures, svc.startd places the service in the offline state. If a service is offline and its dependencies are satisfied, svc.startd tries again to start the service (see smf(5)). If a contract or transient service does not return from its start method before its defined timeout elapses, svc.startd sends a SIGKILL to the method, and returns the service to the offline state. If five failures happen in a row, or if the service is restarting due to an error more than once every ten minutes, svc.startd places the service in the maintenance state. The conditions of service failure are defined by a combination of the service model (defined by the startd/duration property) and the value of the startd/ignore_error property. A contract model service fails if any of the following conditions occur: o all processes in the service exit o any processes in the service produce a core dump o a process outside the service sends a service process a fatal signal (for example, an administrator terminates a service process with the pkill command) The last two conditions may be ignored by the service by specifying core and/or signal in startd/ignore_error. Defining a service as transient means that svc.startd does not track processes for that service. Thus, the potential faults described for contract model services are not considered failures for transient ser- vices. A transient service only enters the maintenance state if one of the method failure conditions occurs. "Wait" model services are restarted whenever the child process associ- ated with the service exits. A child process that exits is not consid- ered an error for "wait" model services, and repeated failures do not lead to a transition to maintenance state. LEGACY SERVICES svc.startd continues to provide support for services invoked during the startup run level transitions. Each /etc/rc?.d directory is processed after all managed services which constitute the equivalent run level milestone have transitioned to the online state. Standard init scripts placed in the /etc/rc?.d directories are run in the order of their sequence numbers. The milestone to run-level mapping is: milestone/single-user Single-user (S) milestone/multi-user Multi-user (2) milestone/multi-user-server Multi-user with network services (3) Additionally, svc.startd gives these legacy services visibility in SMF by inserting an instance per script into the repository. These legacy instances are visible using standard SMF interfaces such as svcs(1), always appear in the LEGACY-RUN state, cannot be modified, and can not be specified as dependencies of other services. The initial start time of the legacy service is captured as a convenience for the administra- tor. FILES /var/svc/log Directory where svc.startd stores log files. /etc/svc/volatile Directory where svc.startd stores log files in early stages of boot, before /var is mounted read- write. EXAMPLE Example 1 Turning on Verbose Logging To turn on verbose logging, type the following: # /usr/sbin/svccfg -s system/svc/restarter:default svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> addpg options application svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> setprop options/logging = \ astring: verbose svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> exit This request will take effect on the next restart of svc.startd. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |system/core-os | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO svcs(1), svcprop(1), kernel(1M), init(1M), svcadm(1M), svccfg(1M), svc.configd(1M), setsid(2), syslog(3C), libscf(3LIB), scf_value_cre- ate(3SCF), smf_method_exit(3SCF), contract(4), init.d(4), process(4), inittab(4), attributes(5), smf(5), smf_method(5) SunOS 5.11 23 Apr 2014 svc.startd(1M)
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