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Re: Error & Talk



matthew tebbens wrote:
> 
> After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message
> when I try to talk with anyone:
> 
> [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99).
> 
> Why ? What can I do to fix it....
> I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else.

Ports in the range 1-1024 can only be bound by root. This is a security
feature. I'm not sure why talk would try to use port 99. Perhaps the
exe was really supposed to be set-user-id root.

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com


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