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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:

> 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.

Well, I'm not condoning running ircd as suid root, however check
/etc/services for tcp and udp ports 194. %)

- alex