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Re: [ecs] bind err Dario Greggio Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:43:04 +0100

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Mark Gilmore wrote:
> Sorry - I'm trying to bind to listen address 127.0.0.1:80 (or 89).
> Is no one else getting this error running ECS/Linux (as a normal user) ?
> I had not seen it until now, as I have been logging is as root
> (until I get *other* problems addressed).

Mark, I think this has to do with what Ingo said:

> Are you talking about BIND
> as in DNS server, or about binding to a port address to listen on it? If
> it is the latter, which port number are you trying to bind to? Do be
> aware that in Unix, only root can bind to ports below 1024. This is for
> security reasons; it is one of the reasons Linux is inherently more
> secure than Windows.



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Ciao, Dario

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