These are a few commonly used commands.
For more, see the manual pages of the service-control, system-control, shutdown, and rcctl programs.
For exposition, we here assume that the cron service has its service bundle directory at, or accessible via a symbolic link at, /var/service-bundles/services/gcron.
Daemontools-style service management employs direct access to the service bundle directories.
OpenBSD-style, systemd-style, and SMF-style service management searches for service bundle directories in several well-known locations.
The cron service (located in such a location) is simply denominated either cron.service or simply cron.
Associated log services are conventionally denominated cyclog@service-name, and pointed to from the logged service's service bundle by a log symbolic link.
A service and its associated log service may, where such convention is adhered to, be named together using shell brace expansion: {cyclog@,}service-name.
chkservice /{run,var,etc}/service-bundles/{services,targets}/* /var/local/sv/*Display the statuses of all (standard location) service bundles, in a full screen TUI scrollable table.
svstat /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Print the status of the cron service, in human readable short form.
svstat --long /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Print the status of the cron service, in human readable long form.
svc -u /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Start the cron service, ignoring dependency and conflict information.
svc -d /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Stop the cron service.
svc -o /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Run the service at least once, starting it if it is not already started.
svc -O /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Run the service at most once, not starting it if it is not already started.
svc -a /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send an ALRM signal to the cron service.
This is used, for example, to tell logging services to cycle to a new log file.
svc -t /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a TERM signal to the cron service.
svc -T /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a TERM signal to only the "main" process of the cron service.
svc -k /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a KILL signal to the cron service.
svc -K /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a KILL signal to only the "main" process of the cron service.
svc -h /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a HUP signal to the cron service.
svc -H /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Send a HUP signal to only the "main" process of the cron service.
svshow /var/service-bundles/services/gcron
Emit a machine-parseable status of the cron service.
Use the --json option for an alternative machine-parseable form.
rcctl get cron
Print the variables set by the conventional env/ environment directory for the cron service.
rcctl set cron flags --wibble
Set the flags variable, set by the conventional env/ environment directory for the cron service, to --wibble.
rcctl status cron
Print long form human-readable status of the cron service. This also prints the tail of any associated log, if it is in the conventional place.
rcctl start cron
Start the cron service, following any dependencies.
rcctl stop cron
Stop the cron service.
rcctl enable cron
Set the cron service to auto-start at bootstrap.
rcctl disable cron
Set the cron service to not auto-start at bootstrap.
system-control status cron
Print long form human-readable status of the cron service. This also prints the tail of any associated log, if it is in the conventional place.
system-control start cron
Start the cron service, following any dependencies.
system-control stop cron
Stop the cron service.
system-control preset cron
Set the cron service to auto-start at bootstrap or not, according to administrator-supplied and package-supplied preset information.
system-control reset cron
Start or stop the cron service according to its enable/disable state, i.e. reset to the configured bootstrap state.
system-control enable cron
Set the cron service to auto-start at bootstrap.
system-control disable cron
Set the cron service to not auto-start at bootstrap.
system-control condrestart cron
Send a TERM signal to restart the cron service.
system-control hangup ttylogin@vc1-tty
Send a HUP signal to the session leader/main process of the ttylogin@vc1-tty service.
system-control cat cron
Print the contents of the various run, restart, and so forth programs of the cron service.
system-control poweroff
Immediately run the system power-off procedure, shutting down any services configured to shut down at power off.
system-control print-service-env cron
Print the variables set by the conventional env/ environment directory for the cron service.
system-control set-service-env cron flags --wibble
Set the flags variable, set by the conventional env/ environment directory for the cron service, to --wibble.
svcadm enable cron
Start (sic!) the cron service.
svcadm disable cron
Stop (sic!) the cron service.
setfacl -m u:jim:rx /var/service-bundles/services/gcron{,/log}/supervise
setfacl -m u:jim:rw /var/service-bundles/services/gcron{,/log}/supervise/ok
setfacl -m u:jim:r /var/service-bundles/services/gcron{,/log}/supervise/status
On systems where these are not world-accessible, grant the user jim access to read the status of the cron service and its associated log service.
shutdown -r -g 30
After a grace period of 30 minutes, during which messages will be broadcast to logged-on users, run the system reboot procedure, shutting down any services configured to shut down at power off.