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23Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
24Use is subject to license terms.
25
26NOTE: This directory contains legacy initialization and termination
27scripts for managing services.  The preferred method of service
28management is via the Service Management Facility; to read more about
29SMF, consult smf(7).
30
31For a general discussion of the mechanism used to invoke these scripts
32see the file /etc/init.d/README.
33
34After all its dependencies have been satisfied, the start method of the
35SMF major milestone "svc:/milestone/multi-user:default" executes each
36'S' script within /etc/rc2.d/ with the argument 'start'.  All start
37scripts in the directory /etc/rcS.d/ will have been run as part of the
38earlier single user milestone.  Any warnings, errors, or output from the
39scripts in /etc/rc2.d/ are logged to the file:
40
41/var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user:default.log
42
43If the system is changing from a higher run-level (for example, through
44an invocation of "init 2"), SMF executes all 'K' scripts within
45/etc/rc2.d/ with the argument 'stop'.  Any warnings, errors, or output
46from these scripts are logged to the file:
47
48/var/svc/log/rc2.log
49
50Scripts in /etc/rc2.d/ may assume the following:
51
52	Temporary directories have been cleaned as appropriate.
53
54	The system is a fully configured NFS client, and all NFS
55	file systems are mounted.  The name service, if any, is running.
56	The system logger is running.  Cron is running.
57
58For a full list of services brought online before scripts are run, see
59the output of "svcs -l svc:/milestone/multi-user:default".
60