From: kjana@...4lab.to (YANAGAWA Kazuhisa) Date: 2002-07-13T11:51:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Socket problems on FreeBSD Hmm.... Not a solution but just for your information, I got following result: > uname -sr FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE > ruby -v -rsocket -e 'TCPServer.new("127.0.0.1", 8080)' ruby 1.7.2 (2002-05-07) [i386-freebsd] > ruby -v -rsocket -e 'TCPServer.new("127.0.0.1", 80)' ruby 1.7.2 (2002-05-07) [i386-freebsd] -e:1:in `initialize': Permission denied - "bind(2)" (Errno::EACCES) from -e:1:in `new' from -e:1 What's the version of your ruby? -- kjana@dm4lab.to July 13, 2002 Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.