Hi Jeff,

>I was doing some testing and tried loading BBBSD from a script file  at system
>boot. But it seems that BBBSD during operation changes the permissions on a fe
>files when loaded as root. My thinking was that BBBSD would load as root to be
> able to bind to the necessary ports

Yes, you load it as root then switch to user bbbs with the command line given.

>but then run as "User". Well, I guess I didn't ask a question but  wondered if
> my thinking was ok. And the best way to load BBBS at boot time.

Seems right to me :)  As root I run this script below.

#/bin/sh
cd /home/bbbs
#
./bbbsd 4 15 telnetd:23 httpd:8080 ftpd:60721 rawd:24555:binkp "quiet" "fork"
"uid:"bbs &

Take care,
Janis

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