Subj : Problem starting bbbsd
To   : Chad Adams
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Wed Nov 29 2017 03:22 am

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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