Creating an SMF service (Part 2)

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The first major problem...the DTD

Or maybe not so much a problem with the DTD as with my understanding of the
DTD.

Which generally means that I have either been lucky before when writing
Validated XML or I knew and forgot it.

I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

I had valid XML but it didn't validate.

My first thought was that I was miss-remembering the DTD occurrence syntax.

W3 Schools: DTD Elements Indicates:

When children are declared in a sequence separated by commas,
the children must appear in the same sequence in the document.

Error message line breaks for readability.

svccfg validate sysedge.xml
sysedge.xml:94: element service: validity error :
Element service content does not follow the DTD, expecting (create_default_instance? , single_instance? ,
 restarter? , dependency* , dependent* , method_context? , exec_method* , property_group* , instance* ,
 stability? , template?), got (instance create_default_instance instance stability )
svccfg: Document is not valid.

Now, that error is clear. I have my children out of order (The above error is synthetic).

I have come up with the following "services":

svc:/application/monitoring/sysedgedeps:plus
svc:/application/monitoring/sysedgedeps:default
svc:/application/monitoring/sysedge:default
svc:/application/monitoring/sysedge:concord
svc:/application/monitoring/sysedge:compat
svc:/application/monitoring/sysedge:plus

sysedge_deps:* are classified as milestones

I don't understand why sysedge:default exists with
<create_default_instance enabled='false'/> set. Or is that just "The default instance will be created but not enabled"?

I may try and reduce the possible confusion and break the regular and plus
code into different services instead of instances. Particularly since I
want/need to set <single_instance/> for sysedgeplus.

It also seems that "application property groups" might do some good things.

I may also see if I can figure out how Dan Price
did his dependency graphing. Stephen Hahn has a cool example of smf dependency
graphing

Part 1

Part 3

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Since I wrote this I have split the services and done a bunch of package integration.

I will go into details of the design and implementation in future installments.

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