Starting kpropd as a service in Solaris 10

[Mike Friedman]

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 at 23:01 (-0400), Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 13, 2006 07:29:22 PM -0700 Mike Friedman 
> <mikef at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> The sysadmin has tried several times to 'refresh' inetd via smf 
>> commands, to no avail.
>
> The issue here is very likely that there is already a service in smf for 
> Sun's kpropd, which is conflicting with the one created as a result of 
> your line in /etc/inetd.conf.  The particularly annoying bit is that the 
> existing service may even use inetd to start Sun's kpropd, but the 
> existing inetd-based service won't be in the same place in smf as one 
> created by conversion from inetd.conf, which means they can (and do) 
> exist at the same time, but yours loses because inetd knew about the 
> other one first.
>
> You have a couple of choices here...
>
> - Find the existing smf service for Sun's kpropd and remove or disable it.
>
> - Figure out what package contains Sun's kpropd and uninstall it.

Jeffrey,

Your description of the situation is pretty much correct and our sysadmin 
figured out how to carry out essentially your first suggestion above.  I 
don't know all the details, but the MIT kpropd is now being started up by 
inetd, which is what I care about.

Thanks.

Mike

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