From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 15:36:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA04096 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (ghana-161.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA04083 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00608; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:48:48 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:48:47 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Julian MAUGHAN cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running IRCD in inetd.conf not working In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. To run from a different port, you'd need to, under ircu 2.10, change the #define PORTNUM 6667, to something else, or edit your ircd.conf file, to add another port, however either way, 194 is a reserved port, and you'd need to run ircd as root, which isn't a good idea any way you put it. > I've gone through all the documentation that I have an everything looks > fine. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Nothing, you _can't_ run ircd from inetd, even if you could, it would be a bad idea. - alex