Jakob Buck wrote: > > Hi .. > > I'm fairly new to "linux" / *BSD, but have used it on/off for a couple of years, and >now I were looking for a small, fast and simple http server, when I found Mathopd, >which seems to be the answer to my needs. same for me, i run it on my notebook, and i can have mathopd loaded without wasting ram, and it won't even spin up the HD when serving requests (if the data is in a ramdisk).
> But (there is allways a but) I'm having problems getting the server to listen to >port 80, and after searching the internet for help most of the day I "give up", and >try my luck here. > > I'm using daemontools and tcpserver for my services, but Im not sure how Mathopd >should be configured to be called from tcpserver, or even how to start Mathopd >properly. > > If anyone have an idea of what's wrong, or can give me an example of a tcpserver >service for Mathopd, I would be thankfull. > (any help would be nice) > > I dont think any information about the system helps, but it's an old HP Netserver >e40, with Slackware8, pretty standard settings. i don't know exactly what daemontools and tcpserver are, but mathopd a) runs standalone (no inetd or anything), and b) the stable release reads the configfile from *stdin*, so you have to run it like # mathopd </etc/mathopd.conf (the development version has a option to read it from a file) > Best regards > Jakob Buck > Denmark (my excuse for the bad language) Thorben Thuermer
