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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:02:47 +0000
From:      Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To:        "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        raiden@shell.core.com, degan@calcon.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bind:  permission denied
Message-ID:  <20020214180247.5a85daff.matt@proweb.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0202141706340.15622-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0202140857240.13090-100000@shell.core.com> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0202141706340.15622-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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> So it's probably sylpheed trying to bind to a low-numbered port (1023 or
> less), which you need root privs to do. Alternatively, trying to open a
> unix-domain socket (ie, one in the filesystem) where you don't have
> sufficient FS privs to do so can also cause this.

I'm using sylpheed 0.7.1 to write this mail, and I'm not root

>sockstat | grep syl
matt     sylpheed  3820    8 tcp4   192.168.1.100:4027    192.168.1.100:143
matt     sylpheed  3820    3 stream XFree86[414]:26
matt     sylpheed  3820    4 stream /var/tmp/sylpheed-1001

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