Subj : Re: Running SBBS as non-root and some other issues...
To   : Sardaukar Siet
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Aug 03 2005 04:01 pm

  Re: Re: Running SBBS as non-root and some other issues...
  By: Sardaukar Siet to Digital Man on Wed Aug 03 2005 03:41 pm

 >  >   Re: Running SBBS as non-root and some other issues...
 >  >   By: Sardaukar Siet to All on Wed Aug 03 2005 05:09 am
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > You can *start* sbbs as root and then have it change to a different
 > user/group
 >  > after binding, by specifying the user/group in the [unix] section of your
 >  > ctrl/sbbs.ini file.
 >  >
 > 
 > I thought so too, but after running as root fine, and changing to my user id
 > group wheel I got this :
 > 
 > Aug  3 23:31:34 samson SBBS: Running as daemon
 > Aug  3 23:31:34 samson SBBS: Waiting for child threads to bind ports...
 > Aug  3 23:31:34 samson SBBS:      !sigwait FAILURE (4)

I think this was a known problem in the gcc compiler (or libc) included in fc3,
but I thought it had been fixed. Are you "up-to-date" with your gcc and glibc?

                                                  digital man

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