[Xitami] Xitami under Mandrake

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 11:52 PM 7/29/2002 -0400, Control-Freak writeth:
>Didn't seem to help.  Funny thing is, that it works fine if I'm logged in as
>root.  I'd rather not be logged on as root all the time until I get a little
>more familiar with the system.
>
>So, it seems that its a user profile configuration issue.  Something in the
>user profile is blocking ports 80 and 81.  Sounds like a security setting.
>I tried running a program called BastilleChooser (in the documentation), but
>I can't find it anywhere using find tools, and its obviously not in the path
>as well.

Ahh...the wonderful "port is <1024" issue.  Yeah, you can't run anything
below 1024 except as root under some conditions (that can be disabled
somewhere...).  I haven't messed with Linux for a while, but I recall
adding Xitami to the boot process (init<something>...) seemed to fix the
problem for me.  Since the extent to which I use Linux is to compile and
test XiFusion before distribution, it doesn't matter if I just log in as root.


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
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