SVCS(1) User Commands SVCS(1)

NAME


svcs - report service status

SYNOPSIS


svcs [-aHpv?] [-Z | -z zone] [-o col[,col]]... [-R FMRI-instance]...
[-sS col]... [FMRI | pattern]...


svcs {-d | -D} [-Hpv?] [-Z | -z zone] [-o col[,col]]... [-sS col]...
[FMRI | pattern] ...


svcs [-l | -L] [-vZ] [-z zone] [FMRI | pattern]...


svcs -x [-v] [-Z | -z zone] [FMRI]...


DESCRIPTION


The svcs command displays information about service instances as recorded
in the service configuration repository.


The first form of this command prints one-line status listings for
service instances specified by the arguments. Each instance is listed
only once. With no arguments, all enabled service instances, even if
temporarily disabled, are listed with the columns indicated below.


The second form prints one-line status listings for the dependencies or
dependents of the service instances specified by the arguments.


The third form prints detailed information about specific services and
instances.


The fourth form explains the states of service instances. For each
argument, a block of human-readable text is displayed which explains what
state the service is in, and why it is in that state. With no arguments,
problematic services are described.


Error messages are printed to the standard error stream.


The output of this command can be used appropriately as input to the
svcadm(8) command.

OPTIONS


The following options are supported:

-?
Displays an extended usage message, including column
specifiers.


-a
Show all services, even disabled ones. This option
has no effect if services are selected.


-d
Lists the services or service instances upon which
the given service instances depend.


-D
Lists the service instances that depend on the given
services or service instances.


-H
Omits the column headers.


-l
(The letter ell.) Displays all available information
about the selected services and service instances,
with one service attribute displayed for each line.
Information for different instances are separated by
blank lines.

The following specific attributes require further
explanation:

dependency
Information about a dependency. The
grouping and restart_on properties are
displayed first and are separated by a
forward slash (/). Next, each entity
and its state is listed. See smf(7) for
information about states. In addition
to the standard states, each service
dependency can have the following state
descriptions:

absent
No such service is defined
on the system.


invalid
The fault management
resource identifier (FMRI)
is invalid (see smf(7)).


multiple
The entity is a service
with multiple instances.

File dependencies can only have one of
the following state descriptions:

absent
No such file on the system.


online
The file exists.

If the file did not exist
the last time that
svc.startd evaluated the
service's dependencies, it
can consider the dependency
to be unsatisfied. svcadm
refresh forces dependency
re-evaluation.


unknown
stat(2) failed for a reason
other than ENOENT.

See smf(7) for additional details about
dependencies, grouping, and restart_on
values.


enabled
Whether the service is enabled or not,
and whether it is enabled or disabled
temporarily (until the next system
reboot). The former is specified as
either true or false, and the latter is
designated by the presence of
(temporary).

A service might be temporarily disabled
because an administrator has run svcadm
disable -t, used svcadm milestone, or
booted the system to a specific
milestone. See svcadm(8) for details.

If a service instance was disabled via
svcadm disable -c , then the provided
comment will also be displayed.


-L
Display the log file of the selected services and
service instances, one per-line.


-o col[,col]...
Prints the specified columns. Each col should be a
column name. See COLUMNS below for available columns.


-p
Lists processes associated with each service
instance. A service instance can have no associated
processes. The process ID, start time, and command
name (PID, STIME, and CMD fields from ps(1)) are
displayed for each process.


-R FMRI-instance
Selects service instances that have the given service
instance as their restarter.


-s col
Sorts output by column. col should be a column name.
See COLUMNS below for available columns. Multiple -s
options behave additively.


-S col
Sorts by col in the opposite order as option -s.


-v
Without -x or -l, displays verbose columns: STATE,
NSTATE, STIME, CTID, and FMRI.

With -x, displays extra information for each
explanation.

With -l, displays user-visible properties in property
groups of type application and their description.


-x
Displays explanations for service states.

Without arguments, the -x option explains the states
of services which:

o are enabled, but are not running.

o are preventing another enabled service
from running.


-z zone
Display only the services in the zone. This option
is only applicable in the global zone, see zones(7).


-Z
Display services from all zones, with an additional
column indicating in which zone the service is
running. This option is only applicable in the
global zone, see zones(7).


OPERANDS


The following operands are supported:

FMRI
A fault management resource identifier (FMRI) that
specifies one or more instances (see smf(7)). FMRIs can
be abbreviated by specifying the instance name, or the
trailing portion of the service name. For example, given
the FMRI:

svc:/network/smtp:sendmail


The following are valid abbreviations:

sendmail
:sendmail
smtp
smtp:sendmail
network/smtp


The following are invalid abbreviations:

mail
network
network/smt


If the FMRI specifies a service, then the command
applies to all instances of that service, except when
used with the -D option.

Abbreviated forms of FMRIs are unstable, and should not
be used in scripts or other permanent tools.


pattern
A pattern that is matched against the FMRIs of service
instances according to the "globbing" rules described by
fnmatch(7). If the pattern does not begin with svc:,
then svc:/ is prepended. The following is a typical
example of a glob pattern:

qexample% svcs \*keyserv\*
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Aug_02 svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default


FMRI-instance
An FMRI that specifies an instance.


COLUMNS


Column names are case insensitive. The default output format is
equivalent to "-o state,stime,fmri". The default sorting columns are
STATE, STIME, FMRI.

CTID
The primary contract ID for the service instance. Not all
instances have valid primary contract IDs.


DESC
A brief description of the service, from its template element.
A service might not have a description available, in which case
a hyphen (-) is used to denote an empty value.


FMRI
The FMRI of the service instance.


INST
The instance name of the service instance.


NSTA
The abbreviated next state of the service instance, as given in
the STA column description. A hyphen denotes that the instance
is not transitioning. Same as STA otherwise.


NSTATE
The next state of the service. A hyphen is used to denote that
the instance is not transitioning. Same as STATE otherwise.


SCOPE
The scope name of the service instance.


SVC
The service name of the service instance.


STA
The abbreviated state of the service instance (see smf(7)):

DGD
degraded


DIS
disabled


LRC
legacy rc*.d script-initiated instance


MNT
maintenance


OFF
offline


ON
online


UN
uninitialized

Absent or unrecognized states are denoted by a question mark
(?) character. An asterisk (*) is appended for instances in
transition, unless the NSTA or NSTATE column is also being
displayed.

See smf(7) for an explanation of service states.


STATE
The state of the service instance. An asterisk is appended for
instances in transition, unless the NSTA or NSTATE column is
also being displayed.

See smf(7) for an explanation of service states.


STIME
If the service instance entered the current state within the
last 24 hours, this column indicates the time that it did so.
Otherwise, this column indicates the date on which it did so,
printed with underscores (_) in place of blanks.


EXAMPLES


Example 1: Displaying the Default Output




This example displays default output:


example% svcs
STATE STIME FMRI
...
legacy_run 13:25:04 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S42myscript
...
online 13:21:50 svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
...
online 13:25:03 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
...
online 13:25:07 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
...


Example 2: Listing All Local Instances




This example lists all local instances of the service1 service.


example% svcs -o state,nstate,fmri service1
STATE NSTATE FMRI
online - svc:/service1:instance1
disabled - svc:/service1:instance2


Example 3: Listing Verbose Information




This example lists verbose information.


example% svcs -v network/rpc/rstat:udp
STATE NSTATE STIME CTID FMRI
online - Aug_09 - svc:/network/rpc/rstat:udp


Example 4: Listing Detailed Information




This example lists detailed information about all instances of
system/service3. Additional fields can be displayed, as appropriate to
the managing restarter.


example% svcs -l network/rpc/rstat:udp

fmri svc:/network/rpc/rstat:udp
enabled true
state online
next_state none
restarter svc:/network/inetd:default
contract_id
dependency require_all/error svc:/network/rpc/bind (online)


Example 5: Listing Processes



example% svcs -p sendmail
STATE STIME FMRI
online 13:25:13 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
13:25:15 100939 sendmail
13:25:15 100940 sendmail


Example 6: Explaining Service States Using svcs -x




(a) In this example, svcs -x has identified that the print/server service
being disabled is the root cause of two services which are enabled but
not online. svcs -xv shows that those services are print/rfc1179 and
print/ipp-listener. This situation can be rectified by either enabling
print/server or disabling rfc1179 and ipp-listener.


example% svcs -x
svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
State: disabled since Mon Feb 13 17:56:21 2006
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-05
See: lpsched(8)
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list.)


(b) In this example, NFS is not working:


example$ svcs nfs/client
STATE STIME FMRI
offline 16:03:23 svc:/network/nfs/client:default


(c) The following example shows that the problem is nfs/status.
nfs/client is waiting because it depends on nfs/nlockmgr, which depends
on nfs/status:


example$ svcs -xv nfs/client
svc:/network/nfs/client:default (NFS client)
State: offline since Mon Feb 27 16:03:23 2006
Reason: Service svc:/network/nfs/status:default
is not running because a method failed repeatedly.
See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-GE
Path: svc:/network/nfs/client:default
svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default
svc:/network/nfs/status:default
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 8 mount_nfs
See: /var/svc/log/network-nfs-client:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.


EXIT STATUS


The following exit values are returned:

0
Successful command invocation.


1
Fatal error.


2
Invalid command line options were specified.


ATTRIBUTES


See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | See below. |
+--------------------+-----------------+


Screen output is Uncommitted. The invocation is Committed.

SEE ALSO


ps(1), svcprop(1), stat(2), libscf(3LIB), attributes(7), fnmatch(7),
smf(7), zones(7), svc.startd(8), svcadm(8), svccfg(8)

May 11, 2020 SVCS(1)