Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: Micke P <mickep3@yahoo.com> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: starting daemons at server start Message-ID: <20040104192156.86503.qmail@web14525.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEBGFDAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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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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