Solaris

Service Management Facility

The Service Management Facility was introduced in Solaris 9 as an alternative way to manage services. In Solaris 10, SMF has been made the default way to manage most services. The SMF framework has significant advantages over the legacy SVR4 mechanisms, primarily in terms of service monitoring and integration with the Fault Management Facility.
Basic Commands

The basic commands for managing services under SMF (Service Management Facility) control are svcs, svccfg and svcadm. The man pages for these commands are a good source of detailed information.

inetadm can be used to monitor services under inetd control.

Many commands require referencing the service identifier, also known as an FMRI.
svcs

* svcs -a: Lists all services currently installed, including their state.
* svcs -d FMRI: Lists dependencies for FMRI.
* svcs -D FMRI: Lists dependents for FMRI.
* svcs -l FMRI: Provides a long listing of information about FMRI; includes dependency information
* svcs -p FMRI: Shows relationships between services and processes.
* svcs -t: This change is temporary (does not persist past a boot).
* svcs -x: Explains why a service is not available.
* svcs -xv: Verbose debugging information.

svcadm

* svcadm clear FMRI: Clear faults for FMRI.
* svcadm disable FMRI: Disable FMRI.
* svcadm enable FMRI: Enable FMRI.
* svcadm refresh FMRI: Force FMRI to read config file.
* svcadm restart FMRI: Restart FMRI.

To make configuration changes to a non-inetd service, edit the configuration file, then enter the svcadm restart command.
svccfg

* svccfg: Enter interactive mode.
* svccfg -s FMRI setenv ENV_VARIABLE value: Set an environment variable for FMRI. Follow by svcadm refresh and restart commands.

inetadm

* inetadm -l FMRI: Displays properties for FMRI.
* inetadm -m FMRI property_name=value: Set a property for FMRI.

In particular, the "exec" value for an inetd-controlled service is the command line executed for that service by SMF. It may be desirable, for example, to change this value to add logging or other command-line flags.

To convert an inetd.conf file to SMF format, run the command:
inetconv -i /etc/inet/inetd.conf