Solaris 10 contains the SMF facility which is very useful for administering daemons. It monitors all services under its control and restarts them if they fail. the main utilities to administer them are:
svcs
* svcs -a: Lists all services currently installed, including their state.
* svcs -d FMRI: Lists dependencies for FMRI.
* svcs -D FMRI: Lists dependents for FMRI.
* svcs -l FMRI: Provides a long listing of information about FMRI; includes dependency information
* svcs -p FMRI: Shows relationships between services and processes.
* svcs -t: This change is temporary (does not persist past a boot).
* svcs -x: Lists erred services and explains why a service is not available.
* svcs -xv: Verbose debugging information.
svcadm
* svcadm clear FMRI: Clear faults for FMRI.
* svcadm disable FMRI: Disable FMRI.
* svcadm enable FMRI: Enable FMRI.
* svcadm refresh FMRI: Force FMRI to read config file.
* svcadm restart FMRI: Restart FMRI.
