From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 4:22:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CDC37B417 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 04:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:22:26 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16bhMN-0006OR-00; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:21:03 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:21:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Matt H Cc: raiden@shell.core.com, degan , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: bind: permission denied In-Reply-To: <20020214180247.5a85daff.matt@proweb.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Matt H wrote: > > > 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 This last looks like it might be the problem. The original poster should check /tmp (or /var/tmp) for named sockets that sylpheed might be trying to use, that are owned by root and not world-accessible. Deleting them (rm as root) should let it run correctly as a normal user. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message