Is there an equivalent of /etc/sysconfig/servicename for Solaris?

Question

On Debian and RedHat machines there is an /etc/default/servicename or /etc/sysconfig/servicename file that is loaded before init scripts are run.

Is there an equivalent for Solaris?

Answer 1

Solaris 10 and 11 use what's called the Service Management Facility (SMF). The equivalents to Linux /etc/default/servicename and /etc/sysconfig/servicename would be found somewhere in the SMF's data.

An overview for Solaris 11 is available:

Introducing the Basics of Service Management Facility (SMF) on Oracle Solaris 11

The Service Management Facility (SMF), first introduced in Oracle Solaris 10, is a feature of the operating system for managing system and application services, replacing the legacy init scripting start-up mechanism common to prior releases of Oracle Solaris and other UNIX operating systems. SMF improves the availability of a system by ensuring that essential system and application services run continuously even in the event of hardware or software failures. SMF is one of the components of the wider Oracle Solaris Predictive Self Healing capability.

This article gives an introduction to SMF and demonstrates some simple examples of administering services on Oracle Solaris 11. More advanced administration topics will be covered in another article. To learn more about SMF, check out a variety of content at the SMF technology page on Oracle Technology Network.

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If you're familiar with legacy init scripts in the /etc/rc?.d directories, this tutorial on how to migrate such legacy scripts into SMF-based services is probably a good place to learn where the parts of SMF are actually located:

How to Migrate Control of System Services from Scripts to the Service Management Facility

In general, you can start by looking under /lib/svc and /var/svc.