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Managing System Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.4

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Updated: February 2022
 
 

Adding Service Instances

Instances of a service allow multiple configurations of a service to run simultaneously. Service instances inherit and customize common service configuration.

Use the add subcommand to create a new entity with the given name as a child of the selected service.

$ svcs -Ho inst pkg/server
default
$ svccfg -s pkg/server add s11
$ svcs -Ho inst pkg/server
default
s11