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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: httpd through cron Date: 16 Jul 1996 11:13:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4sftgb$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4s88g3$krt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <31EB0F48.7EE8@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > Is there a reason for 7000? HTTP runs on port 80 normally. Privileged port, cannot be run by a non-priveleged user. > I'd suggest you start it from /etc/rc.local instead. That way it starts > each time you reboot, automatically. Needs root permission either. :-) It looks to me that the originator is not the sys admin on this machine, but wants to launch a private HTTPD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)