Starting kpropd as a service in Solaris 10

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

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.n

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+ at cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA