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Determining the system’s runlevel:

#who –r

Getting status report of a service:

#svcs -lp sendmail

Getting a status report on all services:

#svcs -a  for smf controlled services

#inetadm  for services controlled by inetd

Customizing a service or listing customisations:

#svccfg -s sendmail

#svccfg -s sendmail listcust

Dependency checking:

#svcs -D sendmail  checks which service is dependent on sendmail

Determining which service instances are dependent on the multi-user

milestone:

#svcs -D multi-user

Determining the services a service instance is dependent on:

#svcs -d sendmail

Sending an email when transactions go to maintenance:

#svccfg setnotify -g maintenance mailto:sysadmins@example.com

Disabling a service:

#svcadm disable sendmail

 he service can be disabled only when there are no dependent services.

nabling a service:

#svcadm enable sendmail

#svcadm enable –r sendmail  enables re!uired dependencies

Starting a service

#svcs –d sendmail

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Displaying the status of a service:

#svcs -l sendmail

Check if a service is enabled:

#svcs -x sendmail

nabling a service in temp mode:

#svcadm enable -rt sendmail  starts the service in temp mode. he service

won"t persist across a reboot

!estarting a service:

#svcadm restart sendmail

"isting #$Ds and service instances associated with a service %&his is

re'uired to check that all instances of a service that has enteredmaintenance mode are stopped(:

#svcs -p sendmail

)illing a service %for a service in maintenance(:

#pkill - sendmail

!estoring a service %for a service in maintenance or degraded state(:

#svcadm clear sendmail

S*+ #ro,les

$ pro%le is an &'( %le which lists multiple services and states whether each should

be enabled or disabled. )ro%les are useful when multiple services are re!uired to be

started and another group needs to shut down.

Creating a new pro,le as a backup of the old:

#svccfg export * pro%le.xml

Change name of the pro,le and change enabled .true’ or .false for each

service/

0pplying a pro,le:

#svccfg apply pro%le.xml

S* noti,cation for service state change

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#pkg install service+fault-management+smtp-notify

nable the service:

#svcadm enable smtp-notify

#ps –ef , grep smtp

Setting up noti,cation:

#svccfg –s svc:+system+svc+global:default setnotify –g from-online

mailto:root@localhost

 his will enable noti%cation for all services.

nabling noti,cation for one service only:

#svccfg -s svc:+network+http:apache setnotify -g from-online

mailto:root@localhost

Checking noti,cation:

#svccfg -s svc:+system+svc+global:default listnotify

Deleting noti,cation:

#svccfg -s svc:+network+http:apache delnotify -g all

!efresh and restart of a service are typically re'uired when changing

con,guration/

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