[gorickey]

I need some pointers on how I can manually start some services on my OS X Server (v10.1) through the terminal in case Server Admin decides not to open....can anybody help me with the exact commands on manually starting FTP and the DHCP services via Terminal? I can get the Web Server started with no problem by using "sudo apachectl start"...surely the other services can be done very similar, right?

Thanks!

[Camelot]

The products you list run differently, so have very different startup instructions.

In the case of ftp, it runs under inetd (or xinetd in 10.2).

To enable or disable ftp under 10.1, edit the file /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment/comment the line that begins "ftp".

Then find the PID of the inetd process:

ps -aux|grep inetd

and kill -HUP <pid of inetd>

to make your changes active.

Under 10.2, the configurations are stored in /etc/xinetd.d

Edit the file 'ftp' and change te 'Disabled = yes' line to 'disabled = no'

then: killall -HUP xinetd

to make the changes take effect,

The above can be used for any x/inetd-based service.

DHCP, on the other hand, runs under its own process, not under inetd. As such it will have its own startup script. Once you find the script, you'll usually find that a:

/path/to/startupscript stop

followed by a:

/path/to/startupscript start

will restart the process (need to be run as root or under sudo, of course)

[gorickey]

Thanks alot, I'll give that a whirl....I appreciate the info and response!