Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:48:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Julian MAUGHAN <JULIAN@usabco.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running IRCD in inetd.conf not working Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113124757.2209v-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <s468aab2.024@usabco.co.za>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Julian MAUGHAN wrote: > Please can someone help with this problem: > > I installed the IRC server port no problem (IRC-2.9.2p3) on my FreeBSD > 2.2.2 machine. The problem is that I want it to run from inetd (because > I want to use 194 as the IRC port), and it won't. Running it from the > command-line on port 6667 works fine however. Any reason you have to use 194? It's a priviledged port so that means running ircd suid-root, which is a major security problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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