Setting up under inetd

• Edit /etc/services

  Add a line which resembles the following to /etc/services:

  http		80/tcp

  You can replace 80 with whatever port number you want to serve from. This explanation of the port number may help if you're confused.

• Edit /etc/inetd.conf

  Add a line which resembles the following to /etc/inetd.conf:

  http	stream	tcp	nowait	nobody /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd httpd

  Replace /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd with wherever you are keeping the server binary, and nobody with the user name you want requests fulfilled as.

• Restart inetd

  Find the inetd process using psand kill -HUP it to restart it.

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