Disable services in Solaris 10
Managing services on Solaris 10 is nothing like Linux. There are no /etc/init.d/ scripts, no service command, no chkconfig. Instead, Solaris uses SMF — the Service Management Facility — and everything goes through svcadm. If you are new to Solaris, this can feel unnecessarily complicated. It is not, once you learn the pattern. Disabling a service You need root privileges or sudo access. The command is: svcadm disable network/cswpuppetd:default The argument is the service FMRI (Fault Management Resource Identifier). For Puppet installed from OpenCSW, the FMRI is network/cswpuppetd:default. The :default part refers to the default instance of the service. Some services have multiple instances, but most only have one. ...