Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:29:06 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> To: "Micke P" <mickep3@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: starting daemons at server start Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEBIFDAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20040104192156.86503.qmail@web14525.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> 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
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