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 +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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