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Micke P wrote:

>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.
>>    
>>
If you installed apache from ports, there should already be a 
apache-dist.sh script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d .
Copy it to apache.sh, chmod 600 (or at least make it executable), and 
apache should start at system reboot.

Scott