Whilst setting up consul on SmartOS I noticed the packages distributed through pkgsrc were lagging behind a bit and the upstream “distribution” contains only the consul binary. Running consul -dev in a tmux window will get boring pretty quickly, so I came up with the following SMF manifest using manifold which supports start, stop and refresh (triggers a configuration reload): <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1"> <!– Created by Manifold –> <service_bundle type="manifest" name="consul"> <service name="site/consul" type="service" version="1"> <create_default_instance enabled="true"/> <single_instance/> <dependency name="network" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service"> <service_fmri value="svc:/milestone/network:default"/> </dependency> <dependency name="filesystem" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service"> <service_fmri value="svc:/system/filesystem/local"/> </dependency> <method_context> <method_credential user="consul" group="consul"/> </method_context> <exec_method type="method" name="start" exec="/usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-dir %{config_dir}" timeout_seconds="60"/> <exec_method type="method" name="stop" exec=":kill" timeout_seconds="60"/> <exec_method type="method" name="refresh" exec=":kill -HUP" timeout_seconds="10"/> <property_group name="startd" type="framework"> <propval name="duration" type="astring" value="child"/> <propval name="ignore_error" type="astring" value="core,signal"/> </property_group> <property_group name="application" type="application"> <propval name="config_dir" type="astring" value="/etc/consul.