Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:21:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk> Cc: raiden@shell.core.com, degan <degan@calcon.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bind: permission denied Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0202151219500.15622-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020214180247.5a85daff.matt@proweb.co.uk>
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Matt H wrote: > > > So it's probably sylpheed trying to bind to a low-numbered port (1023 or > > less), which you need root privs to do. Alternatively, trying to open a > > unix-domain socket (ie, one in the filesystem) where you don't have > > sufficient FS privs to do so can also cause this. > > I'm using sylpheed 0.7.1 to write this mail, and I'm not root > > >sockstat | grep syl > matt sylpheed 3820 8 tcp4 192.168.1.100:4027 192.168.1.100:143 > matt sylpheed 3820 3 stream XFree86[414]:26 > matt sylpheed 3820 4 stream /var/tmp/sylpheed-1001 This last looks like it might be the problem. The original poster should check /tmp (or /var/tmp) for named sockets that sylpheed might be trying to use, that are owned by root and not world-accessible. Deleting them (rm as root) should let it run correctly as a normal user. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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