passwd

For details, see the /etc/default/passwd information in the FILES section of passwd(1), /etc/default/passwd.

power

For details, see the /etc/default/power information in the FILES section of pmconfig(1M).

rpc.nisd

For details, see the /etc/default/rpc.nisd information in the FILES section of rpc.nisd(1M).

su

For details, see the /etc/default/su information in the FILES section of su(1M).

syslog

For details, see the /etc/default/syslogd information in the FILES section of syslogd(1M).

sys-suspend

For details, see the /etc/default/sys-suspend information in the FILES section of sys-suspend(1M).

tar

For a description of the -f function modifier, see tar(1).

If the TAPE environment variable is not present and the value of one of the arguments is a number and -f is not specified, the number matching the archiveN string is looked up in the /etc/default/tar file. The value of the archiveN string is used as the output device with the blocking and size specifications from the file.

For example:

% tar -c 2 /tmp/*

Writes the output to the device specified as archive2 in the /etc/default/tar file.

utmpd

The utmpd daemon monitors /var/adm/utmpx (and /var/adm/utmp in earlier versions of Solaris) to ensure that utmp entries inserted by non-root processes by pututxline(3C) are cleaned up on process termination.

Two entries in /etc/default/utmpd are supported:

• SCAN_PERIOD - The number of seconds that utmpd sleeps between checks of /proc to see if monitored processes are still alive. The default is 300.

• MAX_FDS - The maximum number of processes that utmpd attempts to monitor. The default value is 4096 and should never need to be changed.