$ whatis svcadm

svcadm - manipulate service instances

Examples:

# hostname
MySolaris

# svcadm --help
svcadm: illegal option -- help
Usage: svcadm [-v] [cmd [args ... ]]

        svcadm enable [-rst]  ...      - enable and online service(s)
        svcadm disable [-st]  ...      - disable and offline service(s)
        svcadm restart  ...            - restart specified service(s)
        svcadm refresh  ...            - re-read service configuration
        svcadm mark [-It]   ... - set maintenance state
        svcadm clear  ...              - clear maintenance state
        svcadm milestone [-d]        - advance to a service milestone

        Services can be specified using an FMRI, abbreviation, or fnmatch(5)
        pattern, as shown in these examples for svc:/network/smtp:sendmail

        svcadm  svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
        svcadm  network/smtp:sendmail
        svcadm  network/*mail
        svcadm  network/smtp
        svcadm  smtp:sendmail
        svcadm  smtp
        svcadm  sendmail

# svcs mysql
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         13:19:30 svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50

# svcadm disable mysql
# ps -ef | grep -i mysqld

# svcs -a mysql
svcs: -a ignored when used with arguments.
STATE          STIME    FMRI
disabled       14:38:16 svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50

# scvadm enable mysql

# ps -ef | grep -i mysqld
    root  5906  5864   0 14:38:51 pts/1       0:00 grep -i mysql
   mysql  5904     1   1 14:38:46 ?           0:00 /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysqld --user=mysql --datadir=/var/mysql/5.0/data --pid-file

# svcs -a mysql
svcs: -a ignored when used with arguments.
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         14:38:46 svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50

Please click on " man svcadm. " to see the Manual Page for this command.