Ok... Some stupidity on my part. Small hardware failure on my linux box, and I realized that all I was doing was running three services. 1. http 2. dhcpd 3. dnsmasq Since my iMac is almost always on, i decided to run those guys on the mac... The silence in my computer room is nice, but I installed macports and installed dhcp and it refuses to start. Problem 1. the man pages for dhcpd were not installed - how do i fix that. Problem 2. Had too add this line into my dhcpd.conf and have no idea what this does. #adhock ddns-update-style ad-hoc; Problem 3. It couldn't find /etc/dhcpd.conf I made a symlink to /etc/dhcpd.conf -> /opt/local/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf and i got a bit further but dhcp still won't start. Problem 4. I need a quick refresher on how to restart services in BSD. what's the equivalent of init.d on the mac? -- --