How to Enable a Service Instance

Use the following procedure to enable a service. The service status change is recorded in the service configuration repository. Once the service is enabled, the enabled state will persist across system reboots if the service dependencies are met.

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Determine whether service dependencies are satisfied.

   If the service is enabled, then the service dependencies are satisfied. If not, use svcadm enable -r FMRI to recursively enable all dependencies.

   # svcs -l FMRI|grep enabled

3. Enable a service.

   # svcadm enable FMRI

Example 19–8 Enabling the rlogin Service

The second command in this example enables the rlogin service. The third command shows that the state of the rlogin service instance is online.

# svcs -l network/login:rlogin|grep enabled
enabled      false
# svcadm enable network/login:rlogin
# svcs network/login:rlogin
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         12:09:16 svc:/network/login:rlogin

Example 19–9 Enabling a Service in Single-user Mode

The following command enables rpcbind. The -t option starts the service in temporary mode which does not change the service repository. The repository is not writable in single-user mode. The -r option recursively starts all the dependencies of the named service.

# svcadm enable -rt rpc/bind