Service Management Facility
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- For other uses, see SMF (disambiguation).
Service Management Facility (SMF) is a new feature of the Solaris 10 operating system that creates a supported, unified model for services and service management on each Solaris system and replaces init.d scripts. SMF introduces:
- Dependency order
- Configurable boot verbosity
- Delegation of tasks to non-root users
- Parallel starting of services
- Automatic service restart after failure