The Service Management Facility was introduced in Solaris 9 as an alternative way to manage services. In Solaris 10, SMF has been made the default way to manage most services. The SMF framework has significant advantages over the legacy SVR4 mechanisms, primarily in terms of service monitoring and integration with the Fault Management Facility.

The basic commands for managing services under SMF (Service Management Facility) control aresvcs,svccfg andsvcadm. The man pages for these commands are a good source of detailed information.

In particular, the "exec" value for an inetd-controlled service is the command line executed for
that service by SMF. It may be desirable, for example, to change this value to add logging or
other command-line flags.

Consult the appropriate logs in/var/svc/log to check any errors; perform any needed
maintenance.
Restore the service:

# svccfg -s smtp
svc:/network/smtp> list
:properties
sendmail
svc:/network/smtp> select sendmail
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail> list
:properties
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail> listprop *exec
start/exec astring "/lib/svc/method/smtp-sendmail start"
stop/exec astring "/lib/svc/method/smtp-sendmail stop %{restarter/contract}"
refresh/exec astring "/lib/svc/method/smtp-sendmail refresh"