@alanc @Radio_Azureus

I had to write that FGA in part because *everyone* forgot about the SAF. (-:

#Illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix #ServiceAccessFacility

@alanc

Service management, as I mentioned, began as the domain of the much older Service Access Facility, which comes from #Unix S5R4 in 1988.

The #Illumos manual page for the sacadm command (for one) is dated 1992, and the Illumos #ServiceAccessFacility dates back to the days of #Solaris 2.

The use of sacadm/pmadm/ttyadm/nlsadmin in Illumos et al. is the same now as it was when Æleen Frisch wrote about them for Solaris 2 in xyr book in 1995.

http://jdebp.info/FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html

@Radio_Azureus

@JdeBP @Radio_Azureus SMF was introduced in Solaris 10 in 2005 - while it still supports SVR4 init scripts from the 1980’s, they are deprecated.

#illumos also has https://illumos.org/man/8/ipadm from 2010-ish as a replacement for ifconfig, though ifconfig is also still supported.

@bms48 DTrace integration may encourage interest from the #illumos given that we have exchanged many key technologies.

In its current form, @bsdfund is a proposal-generating strategy that, with formal goals and milestones in place, passes around the hat. This has suited a handful of small projects well but somehow my fundraising efforts go primarily to @bsdcan and @openzfs

How “large”* a project do you estimate this to be?

* Not the optimal software metric.

@Radio_Azureus

#Illumos (and thus #OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, et al.) has #ifconfig as well.

Indeed, some of its tooling, such as for service management, has been stable since the late 1980s; whereas the BSDs went through some churn in this area in the 1990s and early 2000s.

https://illumos.org/man/8/ifconfig