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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
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Subject: Well-known ports
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What precisely are the well-known ports (i.e. only accessible by root) on
FreeBSD?  sysctl gives 600-1023 as "loports" or some such, what does this
mean?

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