06-06-2007
Depending on your operating system, either a use can run chown to give ownership of a file to another user or not. Solaris, for example, does not allow chown to be run by any user except root. HP-UX will allow chown run by any user to actually change ownership of a file to another user. What OS are you running?
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services-admin
services-admin(1) User Commands services-admin(1)
NAME
services-admin - Basic tool to enable and disable SMF services.
SYNOPSIS
services-admin [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
services-admin provides a simple list view of all the services configured on the system (in SMF) and allows the user to enable/disable the
services.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
tion.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% services-admin
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/services-admin Executable for services configuration.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/services
Backup directory for files that are modified.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/services
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), smf(5), svcadm(1M), svcs(1M), attributes(5)
NOTES
It isn't possible to do anything other than disable/enable a service. Some services may not be listed.
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 services-admin(1)