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to: Chad Adams
from: Jeff Smith
date: 2017-11-29 03:22:40
subject: Problem starting bbbsd

Hello Chad,

> I tried starting the telnet server by:
> ./bbbsd 1 1 Telnet's:23

Do you mean "./bbbsd 1 1  telnetd:23" ?

> It says could not bind
> There is nothing running on port 23.

> Am I doing something wrong?

bbbsd loaded as user can't bind to ports less than 1024. I load bbbsd as
root at bootup which allows bbbsd to bind to the necessary ports. bbbsd 
will  load as root but switch to run as user.

The command line I use to load BBBS here is:

./bbbsd 3 22 telnetd:23 httpd:8080 ftpd:21 rawd:24554:binkp
"quiet" "fork" "uid:bbbs" &

Note: All on one line.

Jeff

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