Installing a daemon on Solaris 10

Solaris 10 implements SMF, I wanted to have my shell script run at system boot and make sure it runs reliably in the background. SMF is your friend on Solaris 10.


1. Create a file <file>.xml with the following contents
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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM '/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1'>
<!--
Service manifest for my daemon.
-->

<service_bundle type='manifest' name='inetconv:mydaemon'>

<service
name='network/mydaemon'
type='service'
version='1'>

<create_default_instance enabled='true'/>

<restarter>
<service_fmri value='svc:/network/inetd:default' />
</restarter>

<!--
Set a timeout of 0 to signify to inetd that we don't want to
timeout this service, since the forked process is the one that
does the service's work. This is the case for most/all legacy
inetd services; for services written to take advantage of SMF
capabilities, the start method should fork off a process to
handle the request and return a success code.
-->
<exec_method
type='method'
name='inetd_start'
exec='/opt/hans/daemon.sh'
timeout_seconds='0'>
<method_context>
<method_credential user='hans' group='other' />
</method_context>
<propval name='arg0' type='astring'
value='hans' />
</exec_method>

<!--
Use inetd's built-in kill support to disable services.
-->
<exec_method
type='method'
name='inetd_disable'
exec=':kill'
timeout_seconds='0'>
</exec_method>

<!--
This property group is used to record information about
how this manifest was created. It is an implementation
detail which should not be modified or deleted.
-->
<property_group name='inetconv' type='framework'>
<propval name='converted' type='boolean' value='true' />
<propval name='version' type='integer' value='1' />
<propval name='source_line' type='astring' value=
'mydaemon stream tcp nowait hans /opt/hans/daemon.sh mydaemon'
/>
</property_group>

<property_group name='inetd' type='framework'>
<propval name='name' type='astring' value='hans' />
<propval name='endpoint_type' type='astring' value='stream' />
<propval name='proto' type='astring' value='tcp' />
<propval name='wait' type='boolean' value='false' />
<propval name='isrpc' type='boolean' value='false' />
</property_group>

<stability value='External' />

<template>
<common_name>
<loctext xml:lang='C'>
Redwood Network Agent
</loctext>
</common_name>
</template>
</service>

</service_bundle>
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Note: Please change the UID to the UID of your user and change the path as well as mydaemon, unless you want to keep that name ... ;-).

2. Import the xml file with

svccfg -v import <file>.xml

3. Check the service with

svcs -v mydaemon