Maybe github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/issues?

But that's mostly me guessing.

looks good, thanks.

TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc #356 In digging into the SMF manifest, I noticed that the process is being started via /opt/local/lib/svc/method/mariadb. What reasons are there that the process isn't being directly managed via SMF?

arai: thats pretty normal in order to handle pre startup actions etc.

toasterson: services needing to be debugged before they start, or the use of a script wrapping the binary being managed?

the use of a script wrapper :) Services tend to wokr usually :)

That's what I was hoping too.

And no we don't need a pid technically. But some mariadb tooling might need it. The OS has contracts to reap the processes down.

Perhaps I'm misreading this: What pre-startup actions are being performed by this specific startup script? In reviewing the code, it's literally setting a variable for a PID file, configuring a file descriptor limit and then, depending on the first parameter to the script, starting the process, or optionally killing it based on the stored PID.

Right, forgot about that.

Asking a mariadb dev, one moment.

OpenIndiana also does some install tasks in it's scrpt.

At first glance, the cleanest solution to this problem appears to be bypassing the script and just managing the binary directly via smf, but you make a very valid point about non-illumos related tooling potentially expecting a pidfile somewhere.

But I also don't see why we would need PIDFILE

although mysqld_safe seems to need it

also there is the possibilty to configure properties via SMF and have the script react to that

The dev I spoke with doesn't know of any specific requirement of mariadb tooling requiring a pid file.