Starting and Stopping Solaris services with svcadm

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The svcadm command is used to enable, disable, restart, or refresh services. This post simply provides a list of useful service manager commands

  • to show what system services are running or disabled 
    # svcs -a
  • To start, stop or restart a service 
    # svcadm enable ssh
# svcadm disable ssh
# svcadm refresh ssh
  • to clear maintenance flag and start a service 
    # svcadm clear ssh
# svcadm enable ssh
  • Use -t to make change non persistant 
    # svcadm enable -t ssh
  • to switch to a milestone 
    # svcadm milestone svc:/milestone/single-user:default