Re: [OFFTOPIC, yet related :)] Port access

From: Scott Johnson (Scott.Johnson@SUFSYS.COM)
Date: 11/03/98


What if you start circle as a startup process?

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   George [mailto:greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG]
                Sent:   Monday, November 02, 1998 4:22 PM
                To:     CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
                Subject:        Re:  [OFFTOPIC, yet related :)] Port
access

                On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Jason Wilkins wrote:

                >The only thing I can think of is to put your mud on some
system port, like port 80 (HTTP), so that

                You have to be root (on Unix) to bind to a port under 1024.

                If you do have root, you'll want to be sure to drop root
privs after you
                bind().

                --
                George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its
limitations, but
                http://mouse.van.ml.org/   (mostly) | stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
                http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/    |                  --
Elbert Hubbard



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