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Date:      Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:21:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
Cc:        raiden@shell.core.com, degan <degan@calcon.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bind:  permission denied
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0202151219500.15622-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020214180247.5a85daff.matt@proweb.co.uk>

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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.


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