Dependencies timing

Question

I have implemented a ldap server (and admin server) service and made apache tomcat depending on this, since we had trouble starting tomcat without ldap running (tomcat makes a jndi connection to ldap).
Manifests etc got imported and everything if fine sa far. But on a test boot I still got trouble starting tomcat.
The problem is as one can see from the logs that the ldap start finished after the tomcat start began!
So me question is if there is a mechanism to solve this without placing sleep statements into the startup script - or how one should deal with this issues at all. Maybe it is not a good idea to use SMF for this at all?!

Answer 1

Uff yes you are right svcs -l doesn't list ldap as dependency!
I did not see this since I just looked at the properties via svccfg -s tomcat
which show the dependency to ldap:
svc:/network/http/tomcat5> listprop
config-file                     dependency
config-file/entities            fmri     file:///usr/apache2/tomcat/conf/server.xml
config-file/grouping            astring  require_all
config-file/restart_on          astring  none
config-file/type                astring  path
loopback                        dependency
network-ldap-server             dependency
network-ldap-server/entities    fmri     svc:/network/ldap/server
network-ldap-server/grouping    astring  require_all
network-ldap-server/restart_on  astring  none
network-ldap-server/type        astring  service
svc:/network/http/tomcat5>So what am I doing wrong here? I thought if it shows up in svccfg, this is the configuration which will be used at boot time!?
May you please simply describe how I correctly apply/active (or whatsoever) the configuration seen with svccfg!