Subj : Problem starting bbbsd
To : Chad Adams
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Wed Nov 29 2017 03:22 am
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.
