Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Developer's Guide

Start Overview

Before attempting to launch DNS, the Start method in the sample data service verifies the configuration directory and configuration file (named.conf) are accessible and available. Information in named.conf is essential to successful operation of DNS.

This callback method uses the process monitor facility (pmfadm) to start the DNS daemon (in.named). If DNS crashes or fails to start, the PMF attempts to start it a prescribed number of times during a specified interval. The number of retries and the interval are specified by properties in the data service's RTR file.