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Re: [ecs] bind err Mark Gilmore Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:21:24 -0800

Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:21:24 -0800

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Hi Dario,
Thanks so much for making me read this again
(I read it "backwards" the 1st time :-)).

At 03:43 PM 11/1/2003 +0100, you wrote:

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