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.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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