Hello I have problem with managing services in Solaris. When I try to do anything (start stop restart etc.) with any services there is no action and nothing is logged into syslog or /var/svc/log I'd like not to restart my machine because everything else seems to work nice ;)
-bash-3.00# svcadm disable sendmail -bash-3.00# echo $? 0 -bash-3.00# svcadm enable sendmail -bash-3.00# echo $? 0 -bash-3.00# svcs -a | grep sendmail disabled 2007 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail svcs -d sendmail shows me: -bash-3.00# svcs -d sendmail STATE STIME FMRI online 2007 svc:/system/identity:domain online 2007 svc:/network/service:default online 2007 svc:/milestone/name-services:default online 2007 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default online 2007 svc:/system/system-log:default offline 2008 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default but can not enable autofs too. -bash-3.00# svcs -xv show me this: svc:/network/rpc/bind:default (RPC bindings) State: disabled since Thu Apr 03 23:19:17 2008 Reason: Disabled by an administrator. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05 See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M rpcbind See: /var/svc/log/network-rpc-bind:default.log Impact: 6 dependent services are not running: svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default svc:/network/nfs/status:default svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default svc:/network/rpc/meta:default svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default svc:/network/smtp:sendmail (sendmail SMTP mail transfer agent) State: disabled since Fri Dec 07 16:48:05 2007 Reason: Disabled by an administrator. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05 See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M sendmail See: /var/svc/log/network-smtp:sendmail.log Impact: This service is not running. but I can't enable those 6 services too - they're in offline mode: -bash-3.00# svcs -a | grep offline offline 2008 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default offline 2008 svc:/network/rpc/meta:default offline Jul_11 svc:/network/nfs/status:default offline Jul_11 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default offline Jul_11 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default offline Jul_11 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default Maybe this will help: -bash-3.00# svcs -l svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default fmri svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default name NFS lock manager enabled true state offline next_state none state_time Fri Jul 11 12:34:07 2008 restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default dependency require_any/error svc:/milestone/network (online) dependency require_all/restart svc:/network/rpc/bind (disabled) dependency require_all/error svc:/network/nfs/status (offline) dependency require_all/error svc:/system/filesystem/minimal (online) -bash-3.00# svcs -xv svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default (NFS lock manager) State: offline since Fri Jul 11 12:34:07 2008 Reason: Service svc:/network/rpc/bind:default is disabled. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-GE Path: svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default svc:/network/rpc/bind:default See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M lockd Impact: This service is not running. cat /etc/release Solaris Express Community Edition snv_70 X86 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 06 August 2007 Thanks for any help best regards nichu -- This message posted from opensolaris.org