illumos gate

In a manifest file I can specify:

<instance name="default" enabled="true">

so that a service is enabled automatically at import.

If the service has a dependency that is disabled, the service will transition to offline state. Dependencies must be enabled separately before the service will go online.

Alternatively for a disabled service I can enable the service and recursively enable all dependencies with:

svcadm enable -r site/foo

The manifest file itself should be able to declare that the service and all dependencies should be recursively enabled.

I.e., something to the effect of:

<instance name="default" enabled="true" recursive="true">