Subj : Re: Problem starting bbbsd
To   : All
From : Chad Adams
Date : Wed Nov 29 2017 13:35:17

Thanks

On 21:22 28/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:
>Hello Chad,
>
>> I tried starting the telnet server by:
>> ./bbbsd 1 1 Telnet's:23
>
>Do you mean "./bbbsd 1 1  telnetd:23" ?
>
>> It says could not bind
>> There is nothing running on port 23.
>
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>
>bbbsd loaded as user can't bind to ports less than 1024. I load bbbsd as root
>at bootup which allows bbbsd to bind to the necessary ports. bbbsd  will  load
>as root but switch to run as user.
>
>The command line I use to load BBBS here is:
>
>./bbbsd 3 22 telnetd:23 httpd:8080 ftpd:21 rawd:24554:binkp "quiet" "fork"
>"uid:bbbs" &
>
>Note: All on one line.
>
>Jeff
>
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