Managing System Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Getting More Information About Service States

With no arguments, the svcs -x command gives explanatory information about the following service instances:

  • Instances that are enabled but not running.

  • Instances that are preventing other enabled services from running.

If all enabled services are running, the svcs -x command produces no output.

In the following example, the pkg/depot service is in the maintenance state because its start method failed.

$ svcs -x
svc:/application/pkg/depot:default (IPS Depot)
 State: maintenance since September 11, 2013 01:30:42 PM PDT
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL.
   See: http://support.oracle.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
   See: pkg.depot-config(1M)
   See: /var/svc/log/application-pkg-depot:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.

The output suggests a Predictive Self-Healing knowledge article from My Oracle Support, a man page, and a log file to reference to determine why the start method failed. See Viewing Service Log Files for information about different ways to view log files. See Repairing an Instance That Is Degraded, Offline, or in Maintenance for information about how to fix a service that is in the maintenance state.

In the following example, the print/server service has dependent services that are not running. The dependent services cannot run because the print/server service has been disabled.

$ svcs -x
svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
 State: disabled since Fri Mar 08 14:42:32 2013
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05
   See: lpsched(1M)
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running.  (Use -v for list.)
$ svcs -xv
svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
 State: disabled since Fri Mar 08 14:42:32 2013
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M lpsched
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:
        svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
        svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default
$ svcs -D print/server
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Mar_08   svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
offline        Mar_08   svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default
offline        Mar_08   svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default

If an argument given to the svcs -x command does not meet the criteria stated at the beginning of this section, the output does not show any reason for the instance state but still shows resources for more information.

$ svcs -x smb
svc:/network/smb:default (SMB properties)
 State: online since Thu Sep 12 19:16:56 2013
   See: smb(4)
   See: /var/svc/log/network-smb:default.log
Impact: None.