> Sorry, I am not quite clear about the difference between service and instance.
It's all about property inheritance. A service can be thought of as a collection of instances with a common set of properties. The way instance properties are composed, if an instance doesn't have that particular property it inherits it from the service. Example - suppose you have a bunch of web servers (apache). You can apply all of the default properties (start_ssl, location of the apache binary, the "now completely unnecessary pid file (tm)" ... ) at the service level. Then override these properties at the instance level if they need to be different. > This service is a single instance service. I just use the abbreviation to > identify it. So it should be an instance, right? > You mean I should use 'svccfg refresh' to the running instance? Actually svcadm refresh. That instructs the restarter service (probably svc.startd in your case) to reread (and recompose) the instance properties out of the repository. And if a refresh method exists, it will also be executed (the obligatory sighup to a daemon). The trick here is that you should follow any svccfg that changes service properties with a refresh on the instances so that the restarter is notified of the changes. Bob
