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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Julian MAUGHAN <JULIAN@usabco.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Running IRCD in inetd.conf not working
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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