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|    Message 2,459 of 2,762    |
|    Alan Ianson to Benny Pedersen    |
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|    12 Sep 21 14:21:12    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.3 d2d6695d       REPLY: 2:230/0 613e2ada       TZUTC: -0700       CHARSET: LATIN-1       -=> Benny Pedersen wrote to Alan Ianson <=-               AT>> It works fine if I just run it on port 23 for telnet like this:        AT>> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 telnet:23               BP> that should not work              That does work except it should be telnetd:23. bbbsd listens itself to the       ports given.               AI> sudo ./bbbsd 1 1 ftpd:21 telnetd:23 httpd:80 rawd:24554:binkp quiet        AI> fork uid:alan               BP> add 10000+portnum, and then in xinetd proxy native ports to the bbbs        BP> binded ports              I suppose that could work but I have never used inet.d or xinetd with bbbsd.              These days I use setcap to give bbbsd access to the lower ports so I don't       need to start it as root or use sudo.               AI> ./bbbs 1 1 tcpip               AI> Or like this to log on locally..               AI> ./bbbs 0               BP> its greak to me :-)              Yes, I need to shut down my bbbsd and pollers to add a few areas that were       added recently but I have been reluctant to do that because I need to remember       the paramaters to restart them. ;)               Ttyl :-),        Al              ... This login session: $13.99, but for you $11.88              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.3)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 134/100 153/105       SEEN-BY: 153/135 757 802 154/10 218/840 221/6 226/30 227/114 229/424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 550 664 700 1017 240/5832 249/206 317 261/38       SEEN-BY: 280/464 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       SEEN-BY: 770/1       PATH: 153/757 221/6 229/664 426           |
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