From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-04-19T00:14:47+09:00
Subject: RE: Pascal to Ruby

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Firestone, Mark - Technical Support wrote:

> Ok.  I wanted to use port 23.. so people could just telnet to this thing
> without having to specify a port number (which crappy telnet clients make
> difficult or wont let you do)... right now the test machine is running port
> 2323.
>
> Is there no way around this?  A way to make a ruby script run as a daemon?

You can run as a daemon at any port (witness mysql at 3306, and X at
6000).  One way you could run your program through inetd (or xinetd) which
will bind to the port for you and allow your script to answer at port 23.

-pate

>
> Thanks guys
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Eyler [mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org]
> Sent: 17 April 2002 17:03
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: RE: Pascal to Ruby
>
>
> This depends on which ports you're trying to use.  anything under 1024
> requires root to bind to.
>
> -pate
>
>
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