Solaris 10 Services

Solaris 10 uses the svcadm application for starting and stopping services and class’s any scripts in /etc/init.d as a legacy way of doing this.

Display services

svcs

Turning on

svcadm start sendmail

Turning off

svcadm stop sendmail

Disabling

    svcadm disable sendmail

Note: Here is a good blog which has information on how to convert your rc scripts into SMF format.

http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2005/11/12/converting-an-rc-script-to-an-smf-manifest/