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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
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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. ;-)