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Re: Error & Talk



When I switched the servers around, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts which
had my server name with the old IP address. Took a whole day just to
find that ! :)

Thanks for the reply anyway !
Matthew



On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> 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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