On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, synapse wrote:

> >eeeewwwwww.  Don't run a web server w/ inetd.  It's _much_ less efficient.
> >Apache (and NCSA beginning with 1.4 or 1.5) both prefork several copies of
> >themselves running at once to handle hits at maximum efficiency.  The use
> >of inetd to control it bogs things way down (inetd has to fork for every
> >web request, http server starts, serves, quits... very ugly).
> >
> 
> heh :)
> inetd is for us lazy folks who don't type httpd upon root shell and get two
> hits/month, and probably from ourselves :)

:-)

> come to think of it, you are right, and i (being fairly new to unix)
> thought the multiple httpd process idea would work, anyway, and i wasn't
> really thinking in terms of efficiency. so what should be done to get it
> run automatically as root in a nice way? use crontab, or you know of other
> ways?

best way is to put it... (switching from MkLinux to NetBSD mode) either
(tentatively) at the end of netstart, perhaps... or preferrably in
rc.local (both in /etc). 


Later,

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