From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 11:29:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0626916A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B93443D55 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([67.20.101.103]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040104192906.HNER6455.mta11.adelphia.net@barbish>; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:29:06 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" To: "Micke P" , Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20040104192156.86503.qmail@web14525.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: starting daemons at server start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:29:20 -0000 If it's apache you want to auto start then you missed the instruction during the install of apache that tells you to put it's start script into directory /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -----Original Message----- From: Micke P [mailto:mickep3@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:22 PM To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: starting daemons at server start Right! Ok, it's definitely not inetd that I need. I'm thinking primarily of starting apache and a dynamic ip updater automatically at startup. Micke --- fbsd_user wrote: > Maybe you just don't understand what you are seeing. > Inetd is the > Super server. Every thing you uncomment in the > inetd.conf file is an > server of it own right. But instead of an daemon > running for telnet > or FTP all the time. Inetd runs and listens on the > ports where those > services would be listings and when inetd sees an > request on the > specified port it automatically launches the server > for that > service. With inetd running , ps ax only shows inetd > running, but > start an telnet session to your box and you will see > that inetd has > spawned an telnet server session. When your telnet > users leaves the > session, the telnet server terminates. Inetd is used > to conserve > resources. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree