How to Enable a Custom SMF Service to Run a Script and Exit Immediately (Doc ID 1619315.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 19, 2023

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Goal

The desire is to have a custom SMF service which runs a script and returns immediately similar to a legacy init script (with no processes remaining)

The problem is that by the service start method completes and as there are no processes remaining SMF considers the service to have failed and so restarts it as by default SMF expects processes to remain within the contract.

This continues until SMF considers that there is a problem with the service and so puts it in maintenance state.

Solution

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