Service Management Facility (SMF) is a feature of the Solaris 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. Services sometimes depend on one another for proper operation, and a robust system should know each service's dependencies. If an underlying service fails, it needs to be corrected before other services that depend upon it are affected. Configurable boot verbosity Delegation of tasks to non-root users. A service can be configured to run within a limited set of privileges, rather than as the all-powerful root user...