Solaris中的Milestone和runlevel

Sarting with Solaris 10 the svc.startd daemon replaces the init process as the master starter and restarter; in other words svc.startd assumes the role of starting system services.

 

The services started by svc.startd are refered to as milestones. A milestone is made up of several SMF services. This is a concept that replaces the traditional run-levels that were used in the previous version of Solaris.  For example:

milestone/single-user  <=> run-level S

milestone/multi-user <=> run-level 2

milestone/multi-user-server <=> run-level 3

 

To verify the current milestone(s) use the svcs command:

svcs -a | grep milestone

 

to change into another milestone (i.e. single-user)

svcadm milestone single-user