Starting and Stopping Solaris services with svcadm
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