From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:00:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18383 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18278 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01059; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:00:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Stuart Fuller cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <717380AB0E29D211BC9F00A0C955453918DE73@MAIL> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Stuart Fuller wrote: > Hi, I wonder if you could help me. I should warn you that I'm writing this > on behalf of someone else, > so it may not make 100% sense!! Hm.... Does the person in question not have email? > I play and create on a Mud called newmoon (telnet to > eclipse.cs.pdx.edu 7680) which is run on FreeBSD. My problem is > concerned with the port numbering. Basically we can't actually > configure the mud to a standard port (ie < 23) for numerous reason > (most of which I don't know about!) You must have root access to start services in the 'privileged port' range, from 1-1023. And as everyone knows, running MUDs as root is a Bad Idea and is Asking for Trouble. > So we wondered if there was some way to have a port rerouter of some > sort, ie when we telnet to the machine on eclipse.cs.pdx.edu 23, it > reconnects, locally to port 7680. I believe there is a tool in the net ports tree that does this, but I forgot its name. You could also edit /etc/gettytab and change the login screen to remind people looking for the MUD to use port 7680 instead. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message